Bill Text: HI HB2291 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Weights and Measurements Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (S) Referred to WTL, WAM. [HB2291 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2291-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  560-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2291

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2291, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make the Department of Agriculture's (DOA) Measurement Standards Program (Program) financially self-supporting by:

 

(1)    Establishing a Weights and Measurements Special Fund; and

 

(2)    Requiring the Board of Agriculture to adopt or amend rules to impose or increase fees authorized to be charged under the Program, to cover the Program's costs.

     DOA, Department of Budget and Finance, and Hawaii Crop Improvement Association provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2291, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2291, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair