Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2481, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to include the theft of goats and any species farmed for household or commercial use as constituting the offense of theft of livestock.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure from the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture.

Your Committee finds that the theft of goats and other livestock results in significant economic losses for those raising livestock not currently covered by Hawaii's theft laws.

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. 2481, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.