Bill Text: HI HB2276 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The Animal Industry Special Fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-05-12 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB2276 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2276-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY SPECIAL FUND.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The animal
industry special fund was established to receive moneys from the use or rental
of animal industry division properties or facilities and utilize them to assist
with division operation expenditures.
The state veterinary laboratory is in the
animal industry division. The veterinary
laboratory provides laboratory services and diagnostic support and conducts
disease surveillance projects involving poultry, swine, dairy, and other
livestock and aquaculture industries.
The state veterinary laboratory assists industries, practicing
veterinarians, the state animal quarantine branch, and other governmental
animal health agencies by providing a variety of testing services, including
pathology, histopathology, parasitology, and serology.
The functionality of the state veterinary
laboratory was reduced over recent years due to the loss of positions and
serious facilities problems. Those
problems were resolved with the complete renovation of the roof and air
conditioning system in 2019. All vacant
positions in the lab were also filled in 2019.
Therefore, the state veterinary laboratory is positioned to perform at
optimal capacity.
The purpose of this Act is to amend section
142-3.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the animal industry division to
deposit fees generated by the veterinary laboratory into the animal industry
special fund to assist with its operations.
SECTION 2. Section 142-3.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
amended to read as follows:
"§142-3.6 Animal industry special fund. There is established the animal industry special fund to be administered by the board of agriculture. Moneys received by the board of agriculture from:
(1) The use or rental
of the division of animal industry's properties or facilities, including the
animal quarantine property or facilities pursuant to section 142-3.5; [or]
(2) Appropriations or
other moneys made available[,]; and
(3) Revenue generated from fees for diagnostic,
surveillance, and other work by the animal industry division veterinary
laboratory and animal disease control branch,
shall be deposited into the special fund. All interest earned or accrued on moneys
deposited in the special fund shall become part of the special fund. Moneys in the special fund shall be expended
to cover costs of the division of animal industry, including the costs of
salaries, fringe benefits, operating expenses, equipment, motor vehicles,
contract with any qualified person or entity for livestock handling services,
and operating and maintenance of the animal industry facilities; provided that
moneys in the special fund may be used to fund the department's resource
management and planning programs. A
reserve shall be maintained in the special fund to cover contingency costs,
including accrued vacation leave, unemployment insurance, and workers'
compensation."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2020.
Report Title:
Department of Agriculture; Animal Industry Special Fund
Description:
Allows revenue generated by the state veterinary laboratory and animal disease control branch to be deposited into the Animal Industry Special Fund. Effective on 7/1/2020. (SD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
