THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR
Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair
Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016

DATE:

Thursday, February 11, 2016

TIME:

10:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 016
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB2647
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCES.
Prohibits the sale, offer to sell, purchase, trade, or barter of any part or product from various animal and marine species.  Provides exceptions to this prohibition, including for traditional cultural practices protected under the state constitution.  Imposes penalties for violations of the prohibition on trafficking animal parts and products, including specific administrative fines.  Effective January 1, 2017.

WLA/JDL

SB2642
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SHARK AND RAY PROTECTION.
Establishes penalties and fines for any person who knowingly captures, kills, or takes any shark or ray within state marine waters and makes it a misdemeanor.  Provides exemptions for native Hawaiian gathering rights and cultural practices, special activity permits, research purposes, and public safety.

WLA/JDL, WAM

SB2620
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY.
Extends the conclusive presumption of signage as legally adequate warning of dangerous conditions to "non-natural" conditions on unimproved public land.

WLA/JDL, WAM

SB2512
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ANIMALS.
Increases penalties for animal desertion.

WLA/JDL, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

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