Bill Text: HI SB2194 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Service Animals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-01 - The committee on HMS deferred the measure. [SB2194 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2194-Introduced.html
|
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2194 |
|
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
|
|
|
STATE OF HAWAII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to service animals.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 347-2.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§347-2.5
Service animal, defined. As
used in this chapter, "service animal" means any dog that is
individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an
individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric,
intellectual, anxiety, emotional disorder, or other mental
disability. Other species of animals,
whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the
purposes of this definition. The work or
tasks performed by a service animal must relate directly to the individual's
disability. Neither the potential crime
deterrent effects of an animal's presence nor the provision of [emotional
support,] comfort[,] or companionship by an animal constitutes work
or tasks for the purposes of this definition."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
|
INTRODUCED BY: |
_____________________________ |
|
|
|
Report Title:
Service Animals; Emotional Support; Anxiety and Emotional Disorders
Description:
Specifies that anxiety and emotional disorders are disabilities for which service animals may be trained to assist. Permits animals that provide emotional support to qualify as service animals.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
