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 S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to control and eradicate invasive coqui frogs in Hawaii by requiring the Department of Agriculture (DOA) to designate the coqui frog as a pest.

C&H Farms, Maui Outdoor Circle, and the Board of Directors and Owners at Kihei Akahi supported this bill. DOA, Good Shepherd Foundation, Inc., and Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease opposed this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.