Bill Text: HI HB2504 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Plant Quarantine; Nursery Fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-18 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [HB2504 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2504-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  245-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2504

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2504 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow nursery stock certification fees to be deposited into the Pest Inspection, Quarantine, and Eradication fund.

 

     The Department of Agriculture (DOA), Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and The Nature Conservancy testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee is working with the Committee on Finance to examine all aspects of funding for DOA and will continue to look at alternatives to further maximize fiscal efficiency in the delivery of core services and operations.  In light of the severity of current fiscal conditions affecting the State, your Committee further encourages DOA to provide meaningful and detailed input to your Committee, as well as to the Committee on Finance.

 

     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. 2504 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair