STAND. COM. REP. 501

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 193

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 193 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDOWNERS' LIABILITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to limit liability to landowners who allow personnel and volunteers on their property for the control and eradication of invasive species.

The Department of Agriculture, Maui Invasive Species Committee, Maui County Farm Bureau and the Nature Conservancy provided supporting testimony. The Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii opposed this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Kalahui Hawaii submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that invasive species committees have been formed on Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii but their efforts have been hindered by landowners' reluctance to allow access on their property for fear of liability.

Your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Judiciary determine whether this is the appropriate placement of these provisions in the statute.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 193 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection,

 

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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair