REPORT TITLE:
Bats


DESCRIPTION:
Authorizes importation of bats for study and exhibition.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2177
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO BATS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 150A-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  No person shall transport, receive for transport, or
 
 4 cause to be transported to the State, for the purpose of
 
 5 debarkation or entry thereinto, any of the following:
 
 6      (1)  Soil; provided that limited quantities of soil may be
 
 7           imported into the State for experimental or other
 
 8           scientific purposes under permit with conditions
 
 9           prescribed by the department;
 
10      (2)  Rocks, plants, plant products, or any article with soil
 
11           adhering thereto;
 
12      (3)  Any live snake, flying fox, [fruit bat,] Gila monster,
 
13           injurious insect, or eels of the order Anguilliformes,
 
14           or any other animal, plant, or microorganism in any
 
15           stage of development that is detrimental or potentially
 
16           harmful to agriculture, horticulture, animal or public
 
17           health, or natural resources, including native biota,
 
18           or has an adverse effect on the environment as
 
19           determined by the board, except that, notwithstanding
 

 
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 1           the list of animals prohibited entry into the State,
 
 2           the department may bring into and maintain in the State
 
 3           one live, sterile brown tree snake of the male sex for
 
 4           the purpose of research or training of snake detector
 
 5           dogs, and, further, that a government agency may bring
 
 6           into and maintain in the State not more than two live,
 
 7           nonvenomous snakes of the male sex solely for the
 
 8           purpose of exhibition in a government zoo, but only
 
 9           after:
 
10           (A)  The board is presented with satisfactory evidence
 
11                that the sex of the snakes was established to be
 
12                male prior to the shipment; and
 
13           (B)  The board gives written approval conditioned upon
 
14                such terms as the board may deem necessary, which
 
15                terms shall include measures to assure the
 
16                prevention of escape, continuing supervision and
 
17                control by the board with respect to any
 
18                department import under this paragraph, and the
 
19                manner in which the snakes shall be disposed of or
 
20                destroyed.
 
21           In case of the death of one or more snakes, the
 
22           department or government agency may import and maintain
 

 
 
 
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 1           replacements subject to the conditions described in
 
 2           this paragraph; [and]
 
 3      (4)   Any live or dead honey bees, or used bee equipment
 
 4           that is not certified by the department to be free of
 
 5           pests; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be
 
 6           construed to prohibit the importation of bee semen[.];
 
 7           and
 
 8      (5)  Any fruit bat, except that the department may bring
 
 9           into and maintain in the State five male and female
 
10           pairs of hoary bats as a surrogate species for studying
 
11           the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and for related
 
12           exhibition in a government zoo."
 
13      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
14 New statutory material is underscored.
 
15      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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17                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________