Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1764 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to allow a person who has been pardoned to own, possess, or control a firearm.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from a concerned individual.

Your Committee finds that despite the assumption that those who receive pardons have all their rights restored, there is no specific statutory provision indicating that a pardoned person may again have the right to bear arms.

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. 1764 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.