STAND. COM. REP. NO.  292-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1942

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1942 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow monies in the Pest Inspection, Quarantine, and Eradication Fund to be expended for the Electronic Importer Manifest Program and to make an appropriation for the implementation of the Program.

The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, The Nature Conservancy, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, and Hawaii Crop Improvement Association offered testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Appropriating $200,000 for the implementation of the Electronic Importer Manifest Program; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1942, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1942, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair