STAND. COM. REP. NO. 575-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 2498
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2498 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTERIM RULES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to adopt interim rules not subject to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), concerning the export, taking, possession, sale, delivery, or transport of indigenous species, where an imminent threat of local extermination or species extinction to native wildlife, plants, and aquatic life exists.
DLNR, Hawaii Audubon Society, and Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee finds this measure will help to protect Hawaii's native species by improving the capacity of DLNR to address unexpected situations as they arise.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Providing for publication of rules adopted under this measure pursuant to section 1-28.5, HRS:
(A) In a daily or weekly publication of statewide circulation; or
(B) By publication in separate daily or weekly publications whose combined circulation is statewide;
rather than by publication in each newspaper of general circulation in the State; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 H.B. No. 2498, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2498, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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