STAND. COM. REP. NO. 252-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2104

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2104 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RAT LUNGWORM DISEASE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for programs, studies, and activities related to the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease. This measure requires that the University of Hawaii at Hilo submit a comprehensive plan to the Legislature before the appropriated funds are released.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, two Hawaii County Councilmembers, and Hawai‘i Farm Bureau supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2104, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2104, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair