STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2244

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.C.R. No. 92

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 92 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, AND THE COUNTY OF HAWAII, TO COLLABORATE TO ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT A FIVE-YEAR PILOT PROGRAM TO MITIGATE AND CONTROL THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE POPULATION OF FERAL CHICKENS, ROOSTERS, AND PIGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Agriculture, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Health, and the City and County of Honolulu, to create a working group to mitigate and control the significant increase in the population of feral chickens and roosters.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the five-year pilot program to a working group, and removing language associated with the pilot program; and

(2) Requesting that, should funding become available, an interim program be created to provide traps to capture feral chickens and roosters, as was the focus of the previous version's pilot program; and

(3) Removing all references to feral pigs, since addressing the issue of feral pigs requires a very different approach than feral chickens and roosters and should be addressed in a separate resolution; and

(4) Removing all references to the County of Hawai‘i and Puna, since each county’s challenges with feral chickens and roosters are unique to that county, and working groups should be created for each county to determine the best methods to address their specific issues; and

(5) Removing the interim report request, and changing the requested submittal date for the final report from no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2028 to no later than thirty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2024; and

(6) Amending the measure title and report title to conform to the modified purpose of the resolution; and

(7) Including technical and nonsubstantive amendments for consistency and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 92, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 92, H.D. 1.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair