Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 669, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Board of Agriculture to rent the animal quarantine property and facilities to third parties.

This measure also requires all revenues generated by the use or rental of the property or facilities to be deposited into the Animal Quarantine Special Fund and to be used to defray operational costs of the animal quarantine program, as well as minimize the animal quarantine fees.

Your Committee finds that recent modifications to the animal quarantine program have lowered the number of cats and dogs requiring long-term confinement in quarantine. This reduction has left much of the property, including the kennels, empty.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective on July 1, 2050, in order to promote further discussion of the issues raised.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 669, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 669, S.D. 2.