STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1814

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 607
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
607, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to develop a commercial hunting
industry in the State by allowing nonresident aliens, who are
visiting the State to engage in recreational target shooting or
game hunting, to bring legal firearms into the State.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Honolulu
Police Department, the Hawaii Rifle Association, the Hawaii
Hunting Association, the Hawaii Hunting Advisory Council, and the
Hawaii Citizens' Rights Political Action Committee testified in
support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
607, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 607,
S.D. 1, H.D. 2.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair