Report Title:

Firearms; Exemptions.

Description:

Exempts a retired law enforcement officer from HRS sections 134-6 through 134-9.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2532

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 134-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"§134-11 Exemptions. (a) Sections 134-6 through 134-9, except section 134-7(f), shall not apply:

(1) To state and county law enforcement officers or a retired law enforcement officer; provided that such persons are not convicted of an offense involving abuse of a family [or] household member under section 709-906;

(2) To members of the armed forces of the State and of the United States and mail carriers while in the performance of their respective duties if those duties require them to be armed;

(3) To regularly enrolled members of any organization duly authorized to purchase or receive the weapons from the United States or from the State, provided the members are either at, or going to or from, their places of assembly or target practice;

(4) To persons employed by the State, or subdivisions thereof, or the United States while in the performance of their respective duties or while going to and from their respective places of duty if those duties require them to be armed;

(5) To aliens employed by the State, or subdivisions thereof, or the United States while in the performance of their respective duties or while going to and from their respective places of duty if those duties require them to be armed;

(6) To police officers on official assignment in Hawaii from any state which by compact permits police officers from Hawaii while on official assignment in that state to carry firearms without registration. The governor of the State or the governor's duly authorized representative may enter into compacts with other states to carry out this paragraph."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

SECTION 4. This Amendment shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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