HB 1449 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO PLANT CARE COMPONENTS.

Summary

Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules related to the Plant Care Component Program. Prohibits distributing plant care components that originated outside the State unless it was subjected to treatment before arrival. Establishes administrative penalties to enforce the Plant Care Component Program. Appropriates funds and establishes positions for purposes of the Plant Care Component Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Mar 21, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1449_HD2 → HB1449_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This version of HB 1449 (SD1) is a technical revision of the original House Draft (HD2) that primarily fixes formatting issues, removes metadata artifacts, and standardizes the text for Senate consideration. The substantive policy content regarding plant care components, biosecurity rules, and funding remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

Removed metadata headers, page numbers, and version identifiers from the original House Draft to create a clean Senate version.

Standardized formatting of section numbers and statutory text to match Senate markup conventions.

Corrected minor spacing and punctuation inconsistencies in the original draft text.

POLICY

All substantive policy provisions, including definitions, requirements, penalties, and appropriations, remain identical to the original House Draft.

HB1449 → HB1449_HD1 · 10 edits

MAJOR

The bill was reformatted from a House of Representatives version to a House of Delegates version, with significant substantive changes including the addition of new statutory sections, funding appropriations, and administrative penalty provisions. The bill now explicitly authorizes the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and administrative penalties for the plant care component program, establishes fee collection procedures, and defines key terms like 'plant care component' and 'filter sock'.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded to include explicit authority for the Department of Agriculture to establish administrative penalties and fee schedules for the plant care component program, and to appropriate funds for program implementation and new inspector positions.

FISCAL

Added Section 4 appropriating funds for the plant care component program and for creating full-time equivalent permanent civil service plant quarantine inspector positions.

ENFORCEMENT

Added Section 3(d) establishing administrative penalties of up to $10,000 for violations of the plant care component program, with provisions for contested case hearings.

DEFINITION

Added Section 3(g) defining key terms including 'Board', 'filter sock', 'person', 'plant care component', and 'treat/treatment'.

REQUIREMENT

Added Section 3(b)(2) requiring plant care components to be treated immediately after arrival in the State if not treated prior to entry.

Modified Section 3(b) to clarify that plant care components from outside the State must either be treated before entering the State or treated immediately after arrival.

Added Section 3(c) prohibiting transport of plant care components between islands or from within the State to outside without prior certification.

Added Section 3(c)(2) requiring plant care components to be stored in a manner to prohibit infestation post-treatment.

Added Section 3(e) establishing burden of proof requirements for judicial proceedings to recover administrative penalties.

Added Section 3(f) establishing that acts or omissions of officers, agents, or employees are deemed acts or omissions of the person they represent.

Added Section 3(g)(8) defining 'filter sock' as a mesh tube containing organic plant material used for erosion control.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 21, 2025

Committee

Reported from AEN/JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1249) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Mar 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Chang.

upper

Mar 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, DeCoite.

upper

Mar 14, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN/JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-19-25 10:00AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Committee

Re-Referred to AEN/JDC, WAM.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to AEN, WAM.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 175).

upper

Feb 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward.

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 719) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 11, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Hashem.

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 83) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.

lower

Jan 31, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to AGR, JHA, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors