STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1503

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 797
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 797, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OUTDOOR RECREATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow a nonresident hunter to
hunt wildlife in Hawaii under certain circumstances.

     Your Committee finds that under current law, unless
exempted, a wildlife hunter must have a hunting license and have
completed an approved hunter education course.  Visitors to
Hawaii who may wish to hunt during their stay may not be here
long enough to obtain these licenses or coursework.  Commercial
hunters, however, could provide these tourists with hunting
excursions if the individual hunter has had adequate hunter
education training courses from another state's or country's
program.  This kind of accommodation can help increase the number
of tourists who would like to participate in hunting excursions
but have not been able to do so in the past.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
797, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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