Bill Text: HI HB1433 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Invasive Species; Fee; Freight

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1433 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1433-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  844

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1433

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1433, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the State from the threat of invasive species by:

 

     (1)  Establishing unspecified fines on persons who fail to              pay the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service       fee (inspection fee) and on transportation companies              that fail to remit the inspection fees collected to the      Department of Agriculture (DOA); and

 

     (2)  Depositing the collected fines into the Pest Inspection,      Quarantine, and Eradication Fund.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, Nature Conservancy, Hawaii Audubon Society, and Alexander and Baldwin, Inc., supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, DOA, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Hawaii Ship Agents Association, Hawaiian Cement, Grace Pacific Corporation, Airlines Committee of Hawaii, and Hawaiian Airlines provided comments.

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Specifying $100 as the fine both for persons failing to        pay the inspection fee and transportation companies that      fail to remit collected inspection fees; 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. 1433, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1433, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair