Bill Text: HI HB2775 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Agriculture; Plants; Animals; Microorganisms; Fee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-06-23 - (S) Act 172, 6/23/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 632). [HB2775 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2775-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  370-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2775

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2775 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve regulation of the importation of plants and animals by establishing fees for the processing of permits and other requests for the importation or possession of incoming plants, animals, and microorganisms into the state.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture and Hawaii Crop Improvement Association supported this measure with amendments.  The University of Hawaii System, High Technology Development Corporation, and the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species supported the intent of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by, among other things:

 

(1)  Inserting specific fee amounts for the processing of various permits and other requests for the importation or possession of incoming plants, animals, and microorganisms into the state; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2775, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2775, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair