Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2024 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit persons restrained by court order from transferring ownership of a firearm or ammunition while the order is in effect.

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, Turning Point for Families, Parents and Children Together, the First Unitarian Church, Women Helping Women, Sestak Rehabilitation Services, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Voices: The Battered Women Caucus, and three concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu supported this measure and suggested amendments. The Honolulu Police Department, Office of the Public Defender, and Hawaii Rifle Association opposed this bill.

Your Committee finds that although the law requires individuals restrained by court order to remove firearms from their control by sale, surrender, or transfer, some individuals retain control over their firearms by transferring them to friends and relatives who allow free access to the firearms.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 H.B. No. 2024, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2024, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.