STAND. COM. REP. NO. 402-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1889
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety and
Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1889 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committees, is
to provide a fee discount for state-required animal quarantine
charges for active duty military personnel.

     The Hawaii Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce of
Hawaii, and the Hawaiian Humane Society testified in support of
the intent of the measure.  Supporting testimony was also
submitted by several individuals from the military community.
Comments were submitted by the Department of Agriculture.

     Your Committees recognize that the State's Animal Quarantine
Program is a public health and safety concern, and therefore, the
cost of animal quarantine should be borne by all of the people of
Hawaii and not only those persons who are required to use the
services and facilities of the Animal Quarantine Station.
Therefore, it is your Committees' belief that any reduction in
fees for users of the Animal Quarantine Station should apply to
both military and civilian users.

     Upon consideration, your Committees have amended this bill
by deleting its substance and inserting new material, the purpose
of which is to:


 
 
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     (1)  Reduce the user fee of the Animal Quarantine Station by
          an unspecified percentage of the user fee rate that
          existed on January 1, 2000;

     (2)  Forgive $600,000, which was appropriated for start-up
          costs from the general fund into the Animal Quarantine
          Special Fund (Fund); and

     (3)  Appropriate $300,000 for fiscal year 2000-2001 and
          $300,000 for fiscal year 2001-2002 for deposit from the
          general fund into the Fund.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety and Military Affairs
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1889, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1889, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Agriculture and
                                   Public Safety and Military
                                   Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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NESTOR GARCIA, Chair               FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair