STAND. COM. REP. NO. 590-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2946
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2946 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Exempt law enforcement officers and their suppliers
          from the ban on electric guns; and

     (2)  Redefine "electric guns" to include electric livestock
          prods and exclude defibrillators.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the City
and County of Honolulu Police Department.  Testimony in
opposition to this bill was received from a concerned individual.

     Your Committee finds that the use of electric guns in law
enforcement may be beneficial to the community in the future. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding a provision for three electric guns per county
          to be allowed into the State for purposes of studying
          their utility in law enforcement; and

     (2)  Deleting the purpose clause; and


 
 
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     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2946, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2946, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair