STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1488

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1186
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 
1186 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WILDLIFE PENALTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to update and clarify the
penalty provisions relating to wildlife management.

     Your Committee finds that this section of statutes was last
revised in 1996, when a housekeeping measure inadvertently
removed the provision that a violation of the Department of Land
and Natural Resources hunting rules was a violation of the
statute and subject to penalty.  This change has been noted by
several district courts, and the Department is inhibited in
proceeding with cases of alleged violations of the rules.  Your
Committee further believes that this reinstatement of the penalty
provisions, as well the increases of the minimum fines in this
measure, will assist the Department in its efforts to protect and
maintain Hawaii's natural resources.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Natural Resources, the Hawaii Hunting Advisory
Council, and the Hawaii Rifle Association.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by adding a saving provision.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1186, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1186, S.D. 1.

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



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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