STAND. COM. REP. NO. 656

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 942
                                        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 S.B.
No. 942, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make mandatory the currently
discretionary authority of the Department of Land and Natural
Resources to establish and operate game management, wildlife
sanctuaries, and public hunting areas.

     Your Committee finds that all game birds and mammals in the
State are non-native and pose an alien threat to the delicate
native ecosystems and forested watersheds.  Your Committee
further finds that mandating public hunting in these areas will
promote public and private cooperative efforts at protecting
native birds and mammals from predatory alien species.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 942, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 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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