Bill Text: HI SB775 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaiian Hoary Bat; State Land Mammal

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to VMI, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB775 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB775-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 508

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 775

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 775 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE LAND MAMMAL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to designate the Hawaiian hoary bat as the official state land mammal.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; Conservation Council for Hawaii; Bat Conservation International; The Nature Conservancy; Humane Society of the United States, Hawaii Chapter; Livable Hawaii Kai Hui; and eight individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaiian hoary bat, also known as Ōpe‘ape‘a, is Hawaii's only endemic land mammal.  On October 13, 1970, the Hawaiian hoary bat was added to the United States Fish and Wildlife List of Endangered Species.  This measure is necessary to raise awareness of the Hawaiian hoary bat as an endangered species and engender awareness of this uniquely Hawaiian land mammal.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 775 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

 

		____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair