STAND. COM. REP. NO.  840-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2081

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2081, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to assist and provide supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate control tools and develop a management plan to reduce the population of rose-ringed parakeets on Kauai.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

 

     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. 2081, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair