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. 3248

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1943

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1943, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide funding for detector-dog inspector positions under the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Green Growth Initiative, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, and The Nature Conservancy.

 

     Your Committee finds that reinstating the detector-dog program would help protect residents, visitors, and the environment from the introduction of invasive species into the islands.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified sum to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1943, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1943, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair