STAND. COM. REP. NO. 492
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 1012
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1012 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXHIBITION OF WILD OR EXOTIC ANIMALS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Removing the language that would have prohibited the display or performance of live wild or exotic animals, unless the animals physically reside in Hawaii for more than three hundred days before the display or performance; and
(2) Inserting language that:
(A) Requires written notification of any prior federal Animal Welfare Act violations when applying to the Department of Agriculture for a permit to import exotic or wild animals into the State; and
(B) Establishes the offense of unlawful use of wild or exotic animal to prohibit the use of a wild or exotic animal as part of a travelling exhibit or show for compensation if the animal has been living or travelling in a mobile housing facility.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1012, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1012, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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