STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1354-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2078

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water & Land and Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2078, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUEO RESEARCH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, a two-year breeding ecology study and two-year foraging ecology study on the pueo on Oahu.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, University of Hawai‘i College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Animal Rights Hawai‘i, Maui County Farm Bureau, Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and several individuals supported this measure. An individual opposed this measure. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs provided comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Removing the requirements that the breeding ecology study and foraging ecology study:

(A) Be conducted for two years; and

(B) Include one postdoctoral fellowship, two graduate students, and two undergraduate students as staff members;

(2) Applying the breeding ecology study and foraging ecology study statewide; provided that the studies be conducted in each county in a sequence of phases, with the next phase to begin upon completion of the previous phase, as follows:

(A) City and County of Honolulu;

(B) County of Hawaii;

(C) County of Kauai; and

(D) County of Maui;

(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2051, to encourage further discussion; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2078, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2078, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Higher Education,

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair