Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1267, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), in conjunction with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, to hire a contractor to tag and monitor sharks along the Leeward Coast of Oahu from Pearl Harbor to Kaena Point.

A concerned individual testified in support of this bill. DLNR and the Hawaiian Humane Society offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1267, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1267, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.