STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2152

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2746
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Economic
Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 2746 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PESTICIDES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is make numerous revisions to
Hawaii's Pesticide Law.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was received from the
Department of Agriculture, RESCUE Hawaii, and the American Crop
Protection Association.  Comments were received from the
Environmental Center.

     Your Committees find that amendments are necessary to bring
Hawaii law in closer conformity with federal law, facilitate the
expeditious collection of fines, and expand the use of the
revolving fund.  Specifically, the changes include:  amending the
definition of "pest"; adding the definition of "integrated pest
management"; allowing the revolving fund to be used for personnel
costs and developing integrated pest management strategies;
exempting pesticides deregulated by the EPA, and changing
penalties from civil to administrative.  

     Your Committees amended the measure by substituting the
"integrated pest management" definition with that contained in
the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act in order to reconcile
Hawaii's definition with federal law.  Your Committees also made

 
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technical, nonsubstantive amendments to reflect preferred
drafting style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Economic Development that
are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with
the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2746, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 2746, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and
                                   Environment and Economic
                                   Development,



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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair          BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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