Bill Text: HI HB1901 | 2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact; Task Force
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-03-06 - Referred to WTL, WAM. [HB1901 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-HB1901-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO WILDLIFE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact is a multistate agreement that promotes the enforcement of hunting, fishing, and trapping regulations across jurisdictions. Pursuant to the Compact, engaging in illegal activities such as license violations in one participating state may affect a person's hunting or fishing privileges in all other participating states. The Compact also establishes a process by which nonresident wildlife law violators can be treated as state residents for purposes of law enforcement, thereby easing the administrative burden on the enforcement agency and reducing enforcement gaps that may allow the violator to fail to comply with the terms of the citation. The legislature finds that reciprocity agreements such as the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact are an important part of any law enforcement effort.
The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact is modeled after the successful multistate Driver License Compact and Nonresident Violator Compact. Hawaii is party to both of those Compacts. Forty-seven states have passed legislation necessary to join the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact. The legislature finds that, if enacted in Hawaii, the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact would prevent wildlife violators who have lost their hunting, trapping, or fishing privileges in other member states from coming to Hawaii to circumvent those license revocations. Additionally, persons who have been punished with license revocation in Hawaii would be unable to avoid this punishment by engaging in those activities in another state.
The legislature further finds that existing member states to the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact have reported little to no added costs or administrative burdens associated with participating in the Compact. Member states are free to join and use the information system that facilitates participation. Enforcement agencies in existing member states report spending an average of one to ten staff hours monthly on Compact activities.
The purpose of this Act is to establish the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact task force to examine the feasibility of Hawaii's participation in the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
SECTION 2. (a) There is established within the department of land and natural resources for administrative purposes the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact task force to examine the feasibility of Hawaii's participation in the Compact.
(b) The chairperson of the board of land and natural resources or the chairperson's designee shall serve as the chair of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact task force and shall select task force members to represent appropriate stakeholders, including representatives of:
(1) The division of conservation and resource enforcement;
(2) The division of forestry and wildlife;
(3) The division of aquatic resources;
(4) The law enforcement agencies of each of the counties;
(5) Hunting license vendors;
(6) Authorized fishing license agents;
(7) Practitioners of hunting or fishing as a Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practice;
(8) Holders of hunting licenses; and
(9) Holders of fishing licenses.
No member of the task force shall be made subject to chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, solely because of that member's participation as a member of the task force.
(c) The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact task force shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2015, including its findings and recommendations on the advisability of and procedure for participation in the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, projected costs and personnel hours required, and any proposed legislation.
(d) The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact task force shall be dissolved on June 30, 2015.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2030.
Report Title:
Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact; Task Force
Description:
Establishes a task force in the Department of Land and Natural Resources to make recommendations regarding participation in the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB1901 HD2)
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