STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1809-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2284

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2284, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AQUACULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish provisions relating to the Department of Agriculture's governing of the business of aquaculture;

(2) Grant exclusive property rights to persons who lawfully obtain the cultured progeny of wild plants and animals by brood stock acquisition;

(3) Authorize the Department of Agriculture to regulate the transportation, purchase, possession, and sale of specific aquaculture products as necessary to protect indigenous species;

(4) Require the Department of Agriculture to prepare programmatic environmental impact reports; and

(5) Appropriate funds to carry out the purposes of this measure.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, Hawai‘i Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Aquaculture & Aquaponics Association.

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. 2284, S.D. 2, 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