STAND. COM. REP. NO.268

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 554

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 554 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BROWN TREE SNAKES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Agriculture to import as many as four, live, sterile Brown Tree snakes for research and for training detector dogs.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Agriculture, the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Pest Control Association.

Your Committee finds that when the Department of Agriculture can only import one snake at a time, that one snake has often died soon after arrival in Hawaii. Thus, by increasing the number of allowable imports to as many as four snakes, the department will constantly have a snake available for research and training purposes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 554 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair