Bill Text: HI SB375 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Invasive Species; Frozen Container Shipments
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB375 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB375-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Invasive Species; Frozen Container Shipments
Description:
Exempts frozen commercial container shipments arriving in the State at a temperature of ten degrees Fahrenheit or less from the fee for inspection, quarantine, and eradication of invasive species.
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Act 3, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, increased the scope of the existing inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee to provide funding for the department of agriculture to conduct inspections of imported freight to prevent the introduction of invasive species and to provide the necessary facilities to conduct such inspections. However, Act 3 did not provide an exemption for refrigerated freight at a temperature on arrival of ten degrees Fahrenheit or less, a temperature at which no living organism can survive.
The purpose of this Act is to exempt refrigerated commercial container shipments with a temperature of ten degrees Fahrenheit or less on arrival in the State from the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee.
SECTION 2. Section 150A-5.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§150A-5.3 Inspection,
quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge. (a) There is
imposed a fee for the inspection, quarantine, and eradication of invasive
species contained in any freight, including but not limited to marine
commercial container shipment, air freight, or any other means of transporting
freight, foreign or domestic, that is brought into the [state.] State.
The fee shall be paid by the person responsible for paying the freight charges
to the transportation company, who shall collect the fee and forward the
payment to the department at the port of disembarkation; provided that the
transportation company shall not be liable for any fee that is not paid by the
person responsible for paying the freight charges to the transportation
company. The department shall deposit the fee into the pest inspection,
quarantine, and eradication fund under section 150A-4.5. The fee shall be
assessed on the net weight of the imported freight computed on the basis of 50
cents for every one thousand pounds of freight brought into the [state,]
State, or part thereof.
(b) This section shall not apply to any commercial container shipment, foreign or domestic, that is brought into the State having a temperature on arrival in the State of ten degrees Fahrenheit or less."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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