STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1051-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2134
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety and
Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2134, S.D. 1,
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide a discount for animal
quarantine fees to active duty military personnel.

     The Honolulu Council Navy League, Hickam Air Force Base, and
several individuals testified in support of the measure.  A
member of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation, Department of
Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Chamber of Commerce
of Hawaii, Hawaiian Humane Society, and Hawaii Business
Roundtable testified in support of the intent of this measure
with comments.  The Department of Agriculture testified that it
does not support this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by deleting its
substance and inserting new material, the purpose of which is to:

     (1)  Reduce the user fee assessed by the Animal Quarantine
          Station by a certain percentage of the user rate that
          existed on January 1, 2000;

     (2)  Not require the repayment from the Animal Quarantine
          Special Fund (Special Fund) to the general fund, any of

 
 
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          the $600,000 that was initially deposited from the
          general fund to the Special Fund; and

     (3)  Appropriate funds from the general fund into the
          Special Fund.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety and Military Affairs
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2134, S.D. 1, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as S.B. No. 2134, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Agriculture and
                                   Public Safety and Military
                                   Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair            FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair