Bill Text: HI SB2460 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agriculture; Electronic Importer Manifest; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-21 - (H) The committee(s) on AGR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB2460 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2460-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2551

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2460

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 2460 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow moneys in the pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund to be expended for the electronic importer manifest program; and

 

     (2)  Make an appropriation in an unspecified amount to the Department of Agriculture from the pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund to implement the electronic importer manifest program.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Department of Agriculture and The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee find that full implementation of the electronic importer manifest program is important because it provides for the transfer of data from an importer to the plant quarantine inspector, and therefore allows for more efficient movement of selected commodities through the port.

 

     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. 2460 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair