STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3622

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2081

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2081, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide assistance and funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture to manage the population of rose-ringed parakeets on the island of Kauai.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species; Hawaii Aquaculture & Aquaponics Association; Hawaii Cattlemens Council; Hawaii Crop Improvement Association; Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii; Maui County Farm Bureau; and thirty-five individuals.

Your Committee finds that appropriating moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support the United States Department of Agriculture's work to manage the rose-ringed parakeet population on Kauai will help prevent the destruction of crops and spread of unwanted weeds on Kauai.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation from $284,011 to an unspecified amount; and

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

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 H.B. No. 2081, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2081, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair