STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2605

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

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




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2134 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

     Your Committee finds that, although the number of days
required under the State's animal quarantine law have been
reduced if specific requirements are met, the fees have risen
substantially.  Your Committee further finds that the higher fees
place a substantial financial burden on military personnel,
particularly those in the lower ranks.  Your Committee notes that
many of these personnel are transferred on short notice and do
not have time to meet the vaccination and waiting period
requirements necessary to qualify for the shorter and less costly
thirty-day quarantine period.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by changing the amount
of the discount specified to an unspecified amount to facilitate
continuing discussion on this matter.

     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.

 
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2134, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2134, S.D. 1.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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