Bill Text: HI SB696 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Coqui Frog Eradication; Transient Accommodations Tax

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-06 - (H) Recommitted to FIN with none voting no and Representative(s) Cabanilla, Hanohano excused. [SB696 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB696-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1143-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 696

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 696, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COQUI FROGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to address the problem of coqui frog infestations by authorizing the counties to use a portion of their transient accommodations tax revenues toward coqui frog eradication efforts.

 

     The Department of Agriculture and Hawaii Audubon Society testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your

Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your

Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.

696, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third

Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 696, S.D. 1, H.D.

1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair