STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2927

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1941

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1941, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture 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.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, The Nature Conservancy, and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation.

 

     Your Committees find that construction of agricultural inspection and biosecurity facilities are necessary to ensure effective inspection and to help maintain the quality of perishable commodities in the State.   

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the appropriation from the agricultural development and food security special fund;

 

     (2)  Authorizing the Director of Finance to issue revenue bonds in an unspecified amount to fund the design, planning, and construction of various agricultural inspection biosecurity facilities and related infrastructure;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the Department of Transportation and Department of Agriculture will determine the site of the Honolulu Harbor deconsolidation and Hawaii-grown marketplace facilities;

 

     (4)  Clarifying that the funding for the Honolulu Harbor deconsolidation and Hawaii-grown marketplace facilities shall be only for planning and preliminary design and shall not include construction; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1941, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1941, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair