STAND. COM. REP. NO. 93-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 2542
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2542 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AUDITOR,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) The transfer of the Branch to the Department of Transportation; and
(2) The reestablishment of the Branch as a division within the Department of Transportation to regulate the transportation modes and impose adequate quarantine and biosecurity measures at ports of entry by January 1, 2018.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting from the scope of the Auditor's audit consideration of the transfer of the Plant Quarantine Branch to, and reestablishment of the Branch as a division of the Department of Transportation; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency, clarity, and style.
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. 2542, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2542, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Legislative Management.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair |
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