Bill Text: HI SB2877 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Dogs; Tethering

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-04 - (H) Referred to JUD, referral sheet 37 [SB2877 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2877-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2504

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2877

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2877 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote the safety and well-being of dogs and the community by establishing the offense of confinement of a dog by tethering under prescribed circumstances and to establish mandatory fines for such an offense.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaiian Humane Society, the Maui Humane Society, and four individuals.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that tethering of dogs for extended periods of time where the tether is an inappropriate length or material or is in an inappropriate location is inhumane.  Such prolonged, inappropriate tethering is also detrimental to the public safety as it may lead to more aggressive behavior. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to allow for further discussion of the issue.  Your Committee has also amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2877, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2877, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair