STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1906-18

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 Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2078, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs 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 statewide breeding ecology study and foraging ecology study on the pueo population.

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawai‘i, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee, Democratic Party of Hawai‘i Education Caucus, Democratic Party of Hawai‘i Environmental Caucus, Animal Rights Hawai‘i, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Audubon Society, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, and many concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. A concerned individual testified in opposition to this measure. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and an individual provided comments to this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2078, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair