Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 877, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to separate the multiple offenses of varying severity currently found in section 134-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to firearms and ammunition.

This measure also adds related class B and C felonies to the list of offenses for which criminal charges may be instituted by written information.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Police Department, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Kauai.

Your Committee finds that this measure will make it easier to determine what particular firearm or ammunition offense a person is charged or convicted under by clarifying the current law in this area.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.

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. 877, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 877, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.