STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2111
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2892
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2026
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2892 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FERAL CHICKENS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to each county to facilitate the collection of feral chickens that have already been caught.
Your Committee
received comments on this measure from the
Department of Health.
Your Committee finds that feral chickens have become a persistent and growing nuisance across every county. While feral chickens have been found to contribute to noise pollution, and concerns have been raised regarding sanitation and food crop damage, there has been an inefficient allocation of state resources to control the feral chicken population. Therefore, this measure seeks to manage feral chickens by appropriating funds for the collection, transport, and disposal efforts once feral chickens have been captured.
Your Committee has amended this
measure by:
(1) Inserting a blank appropriation amount; and
(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
Your Committee notes that this measure, as amended, contains an unspecified appropriation amount. Should your Committee on Ways and Means choose to deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider inserting an appropriation amount of $200,000, with $50,000 allocated to each county.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2892, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2892, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs,
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________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair |
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