2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 TN: Todd are you folks opposing or supporting? TY: That one we’re neutral on because it doesn’t really have to do with firearms but that’s just for awareness. AA: Yeah, Teresa, Abraham – District 5 – Todd’s just from the Hawaii Firearms Coalition – like he said he’s not really a hunter so, but, he’s just touching up because Tom’s not here tonight – he was supposed to be doing that hunting presentation but Tom couldn’t make it so we just asked Todd to just kinda roughly go over the legislative part of it because Todd’s really into the legislative part. TY: Yeah, Hawaii Firearms Coalition realized that a lot of hunters use firearms or things like bows and arrows that are covered under Second Amendment – so we want to promote those – so if any of these bills will sustain that in the future – we’ll support that bill. TN: Todd – Teresa in Kona – could you give us your contact number? TY: Yes, it’s – my phone number is (808) 255-3066. And my email is todd@HIFICO.org. TN: Mahalo, Thank you. TY: Is there any other bills you want me to cover, you know, either hunting related or not? I do have a little extra time. I know you’re gonna go over some – how to testify or how to get – how to testify in the legislature, I believe, was on your agenda. AA: Right, so, if you get little bit more time, yeah, you can explain to some of the people in the public of how to go on to – just roughly how they can go on the legislative website, just real roughly cause not sure if any of ‘em know... TY: Yeah, so, for anyone that’s interested in opposing or supporting any of these bills, you can do so – there’s about 60 or 70 bills on the listing that I had, ah, you can only testify for it to support or oppose when a committee hearing comes up and usually they give you about 48 to 72 hours notice and you can find that information on our website capitol.hawaii.gov – that’s our legislature website. You can punch in any of these bill numbers like HB1598 into the website – it will pop up a brief definition of what the bill does and actually the entire contents of the bill so you can read it and see what’s in it and there’s a button at the top, if it’s open for testimony you can click submit testimony on that website and you can type your message in. It could be a sentence, “I just oppose this bill.” Or you can provide your hunting experiences, how it affects you, and ah legislators want to see different points of view, you know, like the 12