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. 2794 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent certain fishing law licensure and permitting requirements contained in Act 85, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, by removing the sunset provision of that Act.

Your Committee finds that Act 85, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, essentially allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), through rulemaking and community outreach programs, to review and update rules regarding the taking of certain marine life.

Your Committee further finds that DLNR is in the process of a comprehensive review of its fishing regulations, and that the new rules regarding minimum size, catch limits, and closed seasons may soon be in place. Your Committee supports this effort and believes that DLNR should have the flexibility to amend these rules from time to time, as circumstances dictate.

Your Committee therefore supports this measure, but has amended it to delay its effective date until June 29, 2050, in order to facilitate further review of this matter and DLNR's final rules.

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. 2794, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2794, S.D. 1.