Report Title:

Agriculture

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to the DOA for the creation of a quarantine enforcement section within the plant quarantine branch, plant industry division of the department.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

21

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PLANT AND NONDOMESTIC ANIMAL QUARANTINE PROGRAM.

 

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

SECTION 1. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for the creation of one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent quarantine enforcement section chief position and two full-time equivalent (2.00 FTE) permanent quarantine enforcement officer positions, and for training, equipment, and travel expenses related to the creation of a quarantine enforcement section within the plant quarantine branch, plant industry division, department of agriculture.

SECTION 2. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of agriculture for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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