STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2011
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 109
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 109 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to agriculture.
Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language to appropriate funds to support the development and implementation of additional tools and education and outreach to stop the spread and establishment of little fire ants as follows:
(1) $1,000,000 to the Department of Agriculture to establish and implement tools to control and eradicate little fire ants in Hawaii;
(2) $800,000 to the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit of the University of Hawaii for the establishment of an island-based canine detection team on each county to assist in the detection of little fire ants and other high priority invasive species as determined by each county; and
(3) $350,000 to the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit of the University of Hawaii for public outreach and education efforts related to the control and eradication of little fire ants in Hawaii.
Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.
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 S.B. No. 109, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 109, S.D. 1, for further consideration.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair |
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