STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2858

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2196

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 S.B. No. 2196 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the requirement for the County of Kauai to contract with the Kauai Humane Society for the purpose of providing certain animal services.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Finance of the County of Kauai.

Your Committee finds that the requirement for the County of Kauai to contract with the Kauai Humane Society is now obsolete and that section 143-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, should therefore be repealed.

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 S.B. No. 2196 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair