Report Title:

Invasive Species; Fees; Freight

Description:

Expands the items subject to the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee (inspection fee) to include any freight, including air freight or other means of transporting freight; makes the existing inspection fee applicable to marine commercial containers and blanks out the amount of the fee; establishes that freight transported into the state that is not in a container shall be assessed an inspection fee pursuant to rules. (HB2843 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2843
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 150A-5.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§150A-5.3[]]  Inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge[.]; penalty. (a)  There is imposed a fee for the inspection, quarantine, and eradication of invasive species contained in any freight, including marine commercial container shipment, air freight, or any other means of transporting freight, foreign or domestic, that is brought into the [State.] state.

     The fee shall be computed on the basis of [$1] $   for each twenty-foot equivalent unit per marine commercial container.  For freight that is transported into the state that is not in a container, the department of agriculture shall assess a fee pursuant to rules adopted under chapter 91.  The department shall collect the fee at the port of disembarkation and deposit the fee into the pest [[]inspection[]], quarantine, and eradication fund under section 150A-4.5.

(b)  The department shall assess a fine for violations of this section pursuant to rules adopted under chapter 91."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.