REPORT TITLE:
Game Birds; Ag Development


DESCRIPTION:
Legalizes the raising of game bird poultry for export.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.906        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________


                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that diversified
 
 2 agriculture is a vital component of the State's economic base
 
 3 especially on the island of Hawaii where more than fifty per cent
 
 4 of the agricultural labor force is employed.  The raising and
 
 5 selling of game birds has the potential of becoming one of the
 
 6 largest exportable diversified agricultural commodities with the
 
 7 potential to generate $100,000,000 in revenue.  The legislature
 
 8 recognizes that game bird poultry farmers need to spar their
 
 9 stags and roosters in order to evaluate the skill level of each
 
10 individual bird or family of birds to determine their marketable
 
11 value.  Thus, the purpose of this Act is to allow game bird
 
12 poultry farmers to spar their stags and roosters with or without
 
13 gloves to determine the skill level of each individual bird or
 
14 family of birds.
 
15      SECTION 2.  Section 711-1109, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
16 amended by amending subsection (2) to read as follows:
 
17      "(2) Subsection (1)(a), (b), (d), (e) and the following
 
18 subsection (3) are not applicable to [accepted]:
 
19      (a)  Accepted veterinary practices [and to activities];
 

 
Page 2                                                     
                                     H.B. NO.906        
                                                        
                                                        

 
 1      (b)  Activities carried on for scientific research governed
 
 2           by standards of accepted educational or medicinal
 
 3           practices[.]; and
 
 4      (c)  Activities related to the raising and selling of game
 
 5           bird poultry including the sparring of stags and
 
 6           roosters for the sole purpose of determining the market
 
 7           value of the game birds."
 
 8      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 9 New statutory material is underscored.
 
10      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
11 
 
12                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________