Bill Text: HI HB1943 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Agriculture; Invasive Species Detector Inspector Positions; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-15 - (S) Act 128, 6/15/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1230). [HB1943 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1943-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  586-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1943

      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 Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1943 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaii invasive species detection and prevention program within the Department of Agriculture and make an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Oahu Detection Dog Services, LLC; Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species; The Nature Conservancy; Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; and a concerned individual offered testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture offered testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting provisions establishing an invasive species detection and prevention program that contracts with private dog handlers to detect invasive species entering the state;

 

     (2)  Specifying a general fund appropriation of $81,270 to match a federal grant to fund plant quarantine detector dogs;

 

     (3)  Directing the Department of Agriculture to submit a report to the Legislature;

 

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

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

 

     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. 1943, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1943, 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