HB 1013 RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
HB 1013 restructures the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Council as the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Authority, administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, to coordinate implementation of the Hawai‘i Interagency Biosecurity Plan and to improve coordination of the State’s invasive species prevention, early detection, rapid response, control, enforcement, and outreach programs. Appropriates funds to implement the Authority and relevant interagency invasive species projects. Effective 7/1/2017.
- Date: February 14, 2017 at 8:30 a.m.
- Committee: House Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection
- Testifier: Rachel Novotny, Interim Dean and J. Kenneth Grace, Associate Dean, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Testimony (PDF)
HB 1013 restructures the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Council as the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Authority, administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, to coordinate implementation of the Hawai‘i Interagency Biosecurity Plan and to improve coordination of the State’s invasive species prevention, early detection, rapid response, control, enforcement, and outreach programs. Appropriates funds to implement the Authority and relevant interagency invasive species projects. Effective 7/1/2017.
- Date: February 1, 2017 at 8:45 a.m.
- Committee: House Committee on Agriculture
- Testifier: Rachel Novotny, Interim Dean and J. Kenneth Grace, Associate Dean, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Testimony (PDF)
