STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2274

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2050

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2050 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide that owners of previously registered firearms in this State shall not be subject to the existing permit waiting period when seeking a permit for the acquisition of another firearm.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Rifle Association; National Rifle Association; Babooze Bowstrings; and forty-four individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Honolulu Fire Department.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

     Your Committee finds that subjecting owners of previously registered firearms to a waiting period when seeking a permit to obtain another firearm is unnecessary.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making a technical amendment to correct a formatting error.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2050, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2050, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair