STAND. COM. REP. NO.  95

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 865

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 865 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSPECTION FEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide additional funding for efforts to prevent and control invasive species by raising the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee from 50 cents to $1 for every 1,000 pounds of freight brought into the State. 

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaii Crop Improvement Association supported this bill.  The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.  Horizon Lines, LLC, opposed this bill.  The Department of Agriculture, Maui County Farm Bureau, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Matson Navigation Company, Inc., and a concerned individual submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     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. 865, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 865, 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