STAND. COM. REP. NO. 322

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1732
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1732 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PESTICIDES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill was to exempt nontoxic pesticides
from state labeling regulation. 

     The Department of Agriculture offered comments.  RESCUE
Hawaii and Bug-Ban, Hawaii submitted favorable testimony.

     Your Committee recognizes that current Hawaii pesticide laws
should be in conformance with federal statutes, specifically the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.  Accordingly,
your Committee has amended this bill by determining that any
pesticide exempted by federal pesticide regulations be exempted
from state regulations, providing that the pesticide product
meets the terms and conditions of such exemptions.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No.1732, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading, in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No.1732, H.D.1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer
Protection and Commerce.


 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection,



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                                   HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair