STAND. COM. REP. NO. 250
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 837
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 837 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONSERVATION OF ANIMALS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Exempting from the applicability of this measure:
(A) Guns, knives, and musical instruments where composition contains less than twenty percent ivory or rhinoceros horn; and
(B) Ivory or rhinoceros horn jewelry identified as Ming's jewelry;
(2) Excluding whale teeth from the definition of "ivory";
(3) Specifying that there is a two-year enforcement delay on the prohibition of the sale and trade of ivory from the effective date of the measure;
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to better comport with drafting conventions and to enhance clarity, consistency, and style; and
(5) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 837, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 837, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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