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 S.B. No. 2737, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the taking or killing of female ula (spiny lobster or Panulirus), Kona crab (Ranina ranina), and Samoan crab (Scylla serrata), with certain exceptions.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Nature Conservancy, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

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 S.B. No. 2737, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.