Bill Text: HI HB1941 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agriculture; Biosecurity; General Obligation Bonds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-27 - (H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-27-12 at 5:40pm in Conference Room 229. [HB1941 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1941-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  338-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1941

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1941 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL INSPECTION FACILITIES AND RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to establish agricultural inspection facilities and related infrastructure at the Honolulu International Airport, Kona International Airport, Kawaihae Harbor, Kamuela Vacuum Cooling Plant, and Honolulu Harbor.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, The Nature Conservancy, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Big Island Farm Bureau, Hawaii Floriculture & Nursery Association, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Agriculture testified in support of this measure with amendments.  The Aloha Tower Development Corporation testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Transportation provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that the total appropriation amount is $17,000,000 with $1,000,000 being appropriated to the Kamuela Vacuum Cooling Plant;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to February 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1941, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1941, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Transportation,

 

 

____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair