STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3019

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2195

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2195, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOWL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to manage feral chicken populations throughout the State.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Establishes within the Department of Health a five-year feral chicken eradication pilot program;

(2) Requires the Department of Health to submit:

(A) A special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and

(B) An annual report to the Legislature on the feral chicken eradication pilot program; and

(3) Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health for the feral chicken eradication pilot program.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaiian Humane Society, Julie Peine Trust, and numerous individuals.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health and three individuals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure will allow for a humane and cost-effective method of managing the growing population of feral chickens in the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring the Department of Agriculture, instead of the Department of Health, to submit a special local registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency;

(2) Changing the measure's repeal date to June 30, 2028; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2195, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2195, 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