Report Title:

Animal Quarantine; User Fees

 

Description:

Reduces quarantine user fees. Exempts animal quarantine special fund from special fund assessments. (CD1)

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

204

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 2

C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature declares that keeping Hawaii rabies-free is a public health and safety concern, and that the cost of animal quarantine should be borne by all the people of Hawaii and not only those people who are required to use the services and facilities of the animal quarantine station. The legislature also recognizes the hardships that animal quarantine user fees place on military personnel and others when being transferred to Hawaii.

The purpose of this Act is to:

(1) Reduce quarantine user fees; and

(2) Exempt the animal quarantine special fund from special fund assessment.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the animal quarantine special fund created under section 142-28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be exempt from all central service assessments under section 36-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for fiscal year 2001-2002.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the animal quarantine special fund created under section 142-28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be exempt from reimbursing the department of budget and finance for any administrative expenses under section 36-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for fiscal year 2001-2002.

SECTION 4. There shall be an animal quarantine fee reduction from the total amount billed by the State according to chapter 4-29, Hawaii administrative rules, for each dog and cat entering quarantine from July 1, 2001, until June 30, 2002, and completing a thirty-day or one hundred twenty-day quarantine. The fee reduction shall be $45 for dogs and cats belonging to civilians and active duty military grades E-7 to O-3, and $175 for active duty military grades E-1 to E-6. There shall be no fee reduction under any circumstances for animals that are:

  1. Owned by active duty military officers above grade O-3;
  2. Assigned an entry date after the lapse date of the reduction;
  3. In transit to another destination;
  4. Born during the quarantine period;
  5. In the process of qualifying for thirty-day quarantine but unable to enter quarantine during the reduction period; or
  6. Pending entry for thirty-day or one hundred twenty-day quarantine after the lapse date.

Upon lapse of the fee reduction period, fees shall be set at the level designated in section 4-29-17(a) and (b), Hawaii administrative rules.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.