Bill Text: HI HB1948 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agriculture; Theft in the Second Degree; Agricultural Commodities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-15 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, C. Lee, M. Lee, Tokioka excused (4). [HB1948 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1948-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  436-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1948

      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. 1948 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to deter agriculture theft by:

 

     (1)  Strengthening the existing law to require proof of identification from sellers of agricultural commodities; and

 

     (2)  Making the failure to maintain the required certificate of ownership or other written proof of ownership while in possession of the agricultural commodities prima facie evidence of the offense of theft in the second degree.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, W.H. Shipman, Limited, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Agriculture testified in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying the signage requirements for the offense of theft in the second degree with regard to aquacultural products and agricultural equipment, supplies, or products.

 

     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. 1948, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1948, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair