STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1152

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 576

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 H.B. No. 576, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FERAL CHICKEN MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and counties to collaborate on feral chicken management projects; and

(2) Appropriate funds to establish one full-time equivalent natural resources management specialist position related to feral chicken management.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu and seven individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Agriculture, Animal Rights Hawai‘i, and one individual.

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 H.B. No. 576, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair