Bill Text: HI SB2523 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pest Inspection, Quarantine, and Eradication Service Fee
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-06-23 - (S) Act 173, 6/23/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 633). [SB2523 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2523-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2182
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2523
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2523 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL INSPECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to exempt dry bulk freight of foreign origin from the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge retroactively from July 1, 2007.
Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by four organizations. One state agency and five organizations submitted testimony in opposition. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Cement bulk freight is pre-processed aggregate and sand that meets stringent requirements of the American Society of Testing Materials, and typically takes up an entire bulk freighter, which is a ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk freight. Prior to leaving for the State, the bulk freight goes through a sampling and inspection process to ensure clearance by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service upon arrival. Similarly, crushed granite aggregate used in hot-mix asphalt involves the excavation of glacial deposits of granite with large scrapers, and then the crushing and washing to the finished product specifications. These processes are subject to strict quality control standards designed to detect and prevent deleterious and organic material in the finished product.
Your Committee finds that this measure provides a narrow exemption from the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge for certain kinds of bulk freight, which are inherently unlikely to carry invasive species and are subject to federal inspections.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Expanding the exemption to include aggregate, cement, coal, and liquid bulk freight;
(2) Inserting definitions for aggregate, cement, coal, and liquid bulk freight;
(3) Amending the purpose section accordingly; and
(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050 for the purposes of further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2523, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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