Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1505, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide effective oversight, coordination, direction, and planning to control and eradicate harmful invasive species by statutorily establishing the temporary Hawaii Invasive Species Council.

In addition, this bill:

A councilmember of the Maui County Council, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, Kauai Invasive Species Committee, Oahu Invasive Species Committee, Maui Invasive Species Committee, Molokai Invasive Species Committee, and the Big Island Invasive Species Committee supported this bill. DOA, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of the Attorney General, and Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1505, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1505, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.