STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2626

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2918
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
2918, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING LICENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of
Land and Natural Resources, effective upon the adoption of rules,
to suspend, refuse to renew, reinstate, or restore, or deny any
hunting license if the department receives certification that the
licensee or applicant has not complied with a child support order
or a subpoena or warrant relating to paternity or child support
proceedings.

     The bill also requires license applicants to disclose if
they are prohibited from using firearms for hunting, increases
the nonresident hunting license fees, and allows Department of
Land and Natural Resources to establish hunting license
application and issuance procedures and set fees through adoption
of administrative rules.

     Your Committee finds that hunting license fees are deposited
into the wildlife revolving fund, which is used for ground
improvements relating to hunting, such as improving game bird
habitat, controlling predators, and leasing of lands for hunting,
and for hunter education and other important hunter services.


 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by making a technical
nonsubstantive change to clarify that the licenses referred to in
section 1 are "hunting" licenses.

     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 S.B. No.
2918, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2918, S.D.
2.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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