STAND. COM. REP. NO. 821-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1889
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1889, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

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

     (2)  Forgive the moneys to be deposited from the animal
          quarantine special fund into the general fund; and

     (3)  Appropriate funds from the general fund into the animal
          quarantine special fun.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the appropriation of $300,000 for fiscal year
          2001-2002; and

     (2)  Reducing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose
          of continued discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your

 
 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1889, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1889, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair