STAND. COM. REP. NO.1226
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 643
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 643, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOGS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to authorize counties to enact and enforce ordinances relating to dangerous dogs and to grandfather existing ordinances.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Corporation Counsel for the City and County of Honolulu, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Hawaiian Humane Society, and the Koolau News.
Your Committee finds that the counties are unsure whether sections 142-74 and 142-75 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to dogs, preempts county ordinances that deal with the same subject. This measure would give effect to such ordinances and eliminate the perception of preemption.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Limiting ordinances to those regulating persons who own dogs that have injured or destroyed an animal belonging to another person, not just dogs that have attacked or pose a risk of serious injury or death to another animal belonging to another person;
(2) Limiting ordinances to those regulating persons who own dogs that have bitten humans on more that one occasion rather than dogs which attack, injure, kill, or pose risk of serious injury or death to other persons; and
(3) Requiring ordinances to be consistent with state statutes.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 643, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 643, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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