Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2263 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the state firearms, ammunition and dangerous weapons law to comply with provisions of federal law.

The Attorney General, the City and County of Honolulu Police Department, and the Hawaii County Police Department submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, needs to be amended to reflect the current federal requirement that state firearm registration records include the applicant's place of birth, country of citizenship, and for non-citizens, an alien or admission number. Federal law now also requires that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement databases be checked prior to the issuance of firearm permits. This measure updates the statute to bring it into compliance with those federal requirements and the federal requirement that a person be prohibited from possessing firearms under state law if the person is prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2263, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2263, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.