Bill Text: HI SB992 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agricultural Loan; Biosecurity Loans

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to AGR/EDB, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB992 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB992-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 675

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 992

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 992, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIVESTOCK BIOSECURITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to promote biosecurity by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to issue loans for biosecurity projects to qualified farmers.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture, Ulupono Initiative, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that increased federal biosecurity regulations help protect livestock from pests and diseases and help ensure the health and safety of farmers and consumers.  These regulations often add costs, but rarely increase farmers' profits.  Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to issue low-interest biosecurity loans will help the livestock industry meet federal regulations, while spreading the costs of federal compliance over time. 

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 992, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 992, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair