Bill Text: HI SB2523 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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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

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2466

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2523

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL INSPECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt certain types of bulk freight from fees for inspection, quarantine, and eradication of invasive species contained in the freight.

 

     More specifically, this measure defines liquid bulk freight, cement bulk freight, coal bulk freight, and aggregate bulk freight, and exempts those types of bulk freight from the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, expressly preempts states from regulating goods for invasive species when in foreign commerce.  Your Committee further finds that this measure makes state law consistent with federal law.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from AES Hawaii, Inc., Grace Pacific Corporation, Hawaiian Cement, and Waimanalo Agricultural Association.  Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. and Matson Navigation Company, Inc., and The Nature Conservancy submitted comments in opposition to this measure.  The Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species submitted comments.  Written comments received by the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Correcting the reference to the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000;

 

     (2)  Deleting proposed section 150A-5.3(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which is redundant; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair