STAND. COM. REP. NO. 352
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 871
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 871 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BIOSECURITY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Reaffirming that the Department of Agriculture's Biosecurity Program is vital to the State;
(2) Clarifying access to and distribution of information provided to the Department's Plant Quarantine Branch for purposes of inspection, permitting, enforcement, and other regulatory functions;
(3) Authorizing the Department to establish or participate in private-public partnerships to enhance the Biosecurity Program and quarantine inspection process; provided that Department employees perform the actual inspections;
(4) Requiring the Department to adopt rules to establish parameters and construction requirements for biosecurity facilities, including cold storage facilities established by private-public partnerships; and
(5) Appropriating funds to enable the Department to complete the implementation of its Biosecurity Program, including an integrated computer manifest system.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting all provisions relating to access to and distribution of information of the Department of Agriculture's Plant Quarantine Branch;
(2) Changing its effective date to January 20, 2050; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, consistency, and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 871, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 871, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair |
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