Report Title:

Animal Quarantine; User Fees; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates general funds for deposit into the animal quarantine special fund to reduce guarantine user fees.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

204

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to animal QUARANTINE.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature declares that keeping Hawaii rabies-free is a public health and safety concern, and that the cost of animal quarantine should be borne by all the people of Hawaii and not only those people who are required to use the services and facilities of the animal quarantine station. The legislature also recognizes the hardships that animal quarantine user fees place on military personnel and others when being transferred to Hawaii.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds from the general fund into the animal quarantine special fund to reduce quarantine user fees.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for deposit into the animal quarantine special fund to be used to reduce quarantine user fees; provided that the reductions shall be made on the basis of the following factors to be considered by the department of agriculture:

(1) The public health, safety, and welfare;

(2) Fairness and equity to users; and

(3) Economic factors, including the ability to pay by a person or class of persons, to ensure that individuals and families moving to Hawaii relocate without creating an economic hardship.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of agriculture for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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