STAND. COM. REP. NO. 333

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1075

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Business and Economic Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 1075 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MONKEYS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the public display of monkeys in commercial establishments or businesses.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiian Humane Society, Animal Rights Hawaii Advocates for Animals, the Honolulu Zoo and Honolulu Zoological Society, and one individual. Your Committee also received comments from the Department of Agriculture.

Your Committee views this measure as a way to prevent the public display of monkeys in a commercial establishment or business, which subjects the animals to an unnatural habitat in which they are exposed to abnormal stimulation and may receive insufficient nutritional and veterinary care.

Your Committee has amended the measure to allow the one-time commercial use of monkeys and other non-human primates for purposes of television and motion picture filming and circus performances. The measure also has been amended to exclude certified animal sanctuary habitats from its prohibitions and by adding two definitions. Your Committee also has amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive amendments for the purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Business and Economic Development that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1075, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1075, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Business and Economic Development,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair