STAND. COM. REP. NO. 698-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2329

H.D. 1

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 H.B. No. 2329, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ROSE-RINGED PARAKEETS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a one-year pilot program to reduce the population of rose-ringed parakeets on Kauai using past research and on-the-ground experience to guide future strategies.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture; County of Kauaʻi Office of Economic Development; Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau; and four individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

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. 2329, 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