STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3102

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2755

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2755 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUEO RESEARCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to collaborate with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources on a state-wide species assessment of pueo.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaii's Thousand Friends.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the State can use the data provided by the state-wide species assessment to determine the protections pueo need under the State's endangered species laws and to identify the conservation needs of the species.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Setting out the program requirements and the appropriation for the program in separate sections to comport with recommended drafting conventions;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2755, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2755, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair