Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1840 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to secure continued protection of the state's endangered wildlife by making permanent the laws allowing the establishment of habitat conservation plans, safe harbor agreements, and incidental take licenses.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Transportation, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by extending the sunset date on the use of new habitat conservation plans, safe harbor agreements, and incidental take licenses to July 1, 2012.

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. 1840, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1840, H.D. 1.