Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1160 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to control and reduce coqui frog populations by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds to establish a coqui frog eradication program on the island of Hawaii.

The Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Chair of the Hawaii County Council, a member of the Hawaii County Council, a member of the Maui County Council, Big Island Farm Bureau, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Association of REALTORS, Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Back to Eden, Hawaii Florist and Shippers Association, Green Point Nurseries, Inc., Hawaii Pest Control Association, and numerous concerned citizens supported this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and the Big Island Invasive Species Committee supported the intent of this bill. Animal Rights Hawaii, Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, and numerous concerned citizens opposed this bill.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1160 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.