STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2679

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3090

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3090 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to develop shooting ranges and implement a statewide hunter education program.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the United Public Workers and two individuals.  Written comments on the measure were received from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committee finds that a statewide hunter education program and shooting range development will encourage the safe use of firearms.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of consistency and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3090, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair