Bill Text: HI SB2503 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Cruelty to Animals; Equine Animals

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-18 - (S) Act 025, 4/17/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1125). [SB2503 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2503-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1194-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2503

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2503, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to add equine animals to those animals that may be subject to impoundment or forfeiture in the course of an animal cruelty case.

 

     The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, The Humane Society of the United States, Hawaiian Humane Society, Hawaii Island Humane Society, CatFriends, and a plethora of concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the language on the award of attorney's fees and court costs;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2012; and

 

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2503, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2503, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair