STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2465

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2236

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2236, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to impose fines for the failure to pay, bill, or remit the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee to the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Alexander & Baldwin, the Matson Navigation Company, the Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, The Nature Conservancy, and the Waimanalo Agriculture Association.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Agriculture is having difficulty collecting inspection fees associated with its inspection, quarantine, and eradication services.  Your Committee believes that this measure will assist the Department in addressing the gaps in the fee collection process.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the fine will be imposed for every one thousand pounds of freight brought into the State, to be consistent with section 150A-5.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which establishes the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2236, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2236, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair