STAND. COM. REP. NO. 865

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1095
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
1095 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to delay for two years the
sunset date on provisions allowing licensed hunters to hunt game
mammals with handguns.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will give the
Department of Land and Natural Resources additional time to
complete its rulemaking process and implement a trial period of
handgun hunting before the sunset date.  Your Committee further
finds that the rulemaking process has taken longer than
anticipated in order to address the many legal concerns that had
been raised.  These concerns have been resolved and public
hearings to amend the rules have been scheduled for March 1999.  

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Rifle
Association, Hawaii Citizens' Rights Political Action Committee,
Lessons in Firearms Education, Hawaii Hunting Association, and
two concerned individuals.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1095, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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