STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2026

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2156

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2156 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WILDLIFE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Department of Land and Natural Resources to become a member of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact or similar agreement.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact Board of Wildlife Violator Compact Administrators, Humane Society of the United States, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Babooze Bowstrings, and two individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committee finds that the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact is a multistate agreement that promotes enforcement of hunting, fishing, trapping, and other wildlife related regulations across jurisdictions and could prevent wildlife violators who have lost their hunting, fishing, trapping, or other wildlife related privileges in other member states from obtaining a hunting license in Hawaii.  Your Committee further finds that the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact is a common sense way for states to share information on violators who have lost their hunting, fishing, trapping, or other wildlife related privileges and that Hawaii should be participating in this agreement.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2156 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair