STAND. COM. REP. NO.220-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2153
H.D. 1
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. 2153 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of the bill is to:
1. Extend the federal agency exemption from firearm permit and registration requirements to firearms or ammunition that are a part of the official equipment of any state law enforcement agency; and
2. Add an exemption for federal and state law enforcement agency official equipment from the permit requirement for possession of a firearm owned by another.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Public Safety and the Honolulu Police Department.
Your Committee finds that currently, state and county law enforcement officers are exempt from the license to carry requirement; however, the state and county agencies are not allowed to transfer official duty firearms to these same officers. This measure would eliminate the permit to acquire requirement for any state officer, as it does for officers at the federal level.
Your Committee amended the bill by making a technical, nonsubstantive change for style and clarity.
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. 2153, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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