CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 224-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3379

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 3379, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BIOSECURITY,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a ports-of-entry biosecurity program.

Your Committee on Conference finds that strengthening biosecurity at the State's ports-of-entry will offer many ecological and economic benefits to Hawaii. In its original form, this measure appropriated funds from funds appropriated to the Department of Land and Natural Resources native resources and fire protection programs to a ports-of-entry biosecurity program. Your Committee on Conference further finds that the Department of Agriculture is better suited to implement a ports-of-entry biosecurity program.

Accordingly, your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a general fund appropriation amount of $525,000; and

(2) Replacing the Department of Land and Natural Resources with the Department of Agriculture as the expending agency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3379, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3379, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS Co-Chair	____________________________ MIKE GABBARD Chair
____________________________ KYLE T. YAMASHITA Co-Chair	____________________________ CHRIS LEE Co-Chair