STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1630-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2401

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2401, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FERAL CHICKENS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to each county as a grant-in-aid for the implementation of feral chicken control programs and to the Department of Health for a feeding of feral animals education campaign.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau; BOMA Hawaiʻi; and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Animal Rights Hawaiʻi. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health; Department of Agriculture; and Hawaiian Humane Society.

Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that each county that receives a grant-in-aid shall provide an unspecified percentage of matching funds for the implementation of feral chicken control programs.

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. 2401, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2401, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair