Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2759 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to combat the spread of coqui frogs by requiring the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to give priority, in its invasive species prevention and control plan, to eradicating coqui frogs that are on lands:

(1) Owned by the State or any county; and

(2) Within one mile of residential areas.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and C&H Farms supported this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and Conservation Council for Hawaii supported the intent of this bill. Animal Rights Hawaii 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. 2759 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.