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A bill to bolster Hawaii’s dog tethering laws has died.
A bill to bolster Hawaii’s dog tethering laws has died.
Senate Bill 700, as last amended, would have created a second-degree animal cruelty charge for chaining a dog for more than 24 hours on a tether shorter than 10 feet, unless the dog was “engaged in supervised activity” or being transported.
The bill was never scheduled for a third reading House reading.
Animal rights activists had been pushing for the proposal, which they said was their last shot this year to get a tethering law passed.
Last year, state Sen. Russell Ruderman, D-Puna, sponsored three animal cruelty bills that would have similarly addressed dog tethering, among other things. None of Ruderman’s bills passed.