STAND. COM. REP. NO. 417-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: H.B. No. 3121
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 3121 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to direct the Director of Civil Defense (Director), and organizations under the direction of the Director operating and maintaining emergency shelters during civil defense emergency periods, to make suitable arrangements and accommodations to provide shelter for pet animals, subject to the public's health, welfare, and safety.
The state Department of Defense testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee finds that, concerned over the welfare and safety of their pet animals during an emergency situation, many pet owners would rather put themselves in harm's way than abandon their pets.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Directing the Governor to adopt criteria, requirements, conditions, and limitations for providing suitable arrangements for sheltering pet animals in public shelters;
(2) Directing the Director to identify public shelters suitable for sheltering pet animals;
(3) Allowing the Director to identify suitable private shelters for pet animals; and
(4) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3121, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3121, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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