STAND. COM. REP. NO.  556

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 845

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 845 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SHARK FEEDING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the safety of our state's ocean users by changing the prohibition against all shark feeding to all commercial shark feeding activities, including soliciting and advertising, anywhere within the state or state waters. 

 

     A concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to                    encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style,         clarity, and consistency.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 845, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 845, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair