STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1302-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3320

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water & Land and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 3320, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FERAL PIG CONTROL PERMITS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to codify an expedited process to acquire permits to destroy or control game mammals, including feral pigs, on private property.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawai‘i Farm Bureau and Ulupono Initiative. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committees find that the process for acquiring the necessary permits to destroy or control game mammals on private property is often difficult and cumbersome and that creating an expedited process could better allow landowners to protect life and property. However, your Committees also recognize that these provisions may be best determined through administrative rules in order to preserve maximum flexibility in addressing population control of feral pigs on private lands.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the provisions that would have codified the process for acquiring permits to destroy or control game mammals, including feral pigs, on private property; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3320, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3320, 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 Agriculture,

____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM, Chair

____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair