STAND. COM. REP. NO. 882-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 1902
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1902, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Prohibiting the Department of Land and Natural Resources from reducing the total acreage of designated public hunting areas on each island;
(2) Requiring the Department to designate comparable replacement state land if the Department makes public hunting area land unavailable; and
(3) Requiring the Department to submit an annual report to the Legislature explaining the unavailability and replacement of public hunting lands in the previous year.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting a preamble that defines the purpose of the measure;
(2) Specifying that the Department shall make reasonable efforts to prevent and replace the loss, destruction, or degradation of public hunting areas on any island of the State instead of strictly prohibiting a reduction in acreage;
(3) Clarifying the required contents of the Department's report to the Legislature regarding public hunting lands;
(4) Establishing the Hunting Advisory Commission within the Department, to serve in an advisory role on hunting-related matters;
(5) Making an appropriation of an unspecified sum to the Department for administrative expenses related to the Hunting Advisory Commission; and
(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1902, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1902, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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