Bill Text: HI SR161 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting The Department Of Agriculture To Develop And Implement A Process To Certify Privately-owned And Operated Plant Quarantine Facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-06 - Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06/06/22. [SR161 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-SR161-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	161
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the department of agriculture to develop and implement a process to certify privately-owned and operated plant quarantine facilities.

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Department of Agriculture is responsible for plant quarantine facilities in the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, coffee leaf rust is a devastating fungal pathogen that poses a significant danger to Hawai‘i's coffee industry; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State has adopted rules to restrict the movement of coffee plants from islands with infected plants to stop the spread of coffee leaf rust; and

 

     WHEREAS, a long-term solution to the threat posed by coffee leaf rust is to replace existing coffee plants with rust-resistant varieties imported from oversees; and

 

     WHEREAS, importation of coffee plants requires the plants to undergo plant quarantine in a state-administered plant quarantine facility; and

 

     WHEREAS, allowing the use of privately-owned and operated plant quarantine facilities would dramatically increase the capacity of the State to import coffee plant varieties that are resistant to coffee leaf rust; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2022, that the Department of Agriculture is requested to develop and implement a process to certify privately-owned and operated plant quarantine facilities to allow for increased capacity of plant quarantine facilities in the State; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Plant Quarantine Facilities; Privately-Owned and Operated; Plant Quarantine Branch; Department of Agriculture