STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2782

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2938

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2938, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS REGISTRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require and appropriate funds for the Department of the Attorney General to establish and operate, in collaboration with the county police departments, a statewide online firearms registration process that requires not more than two visits to the respective county police station per registration.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Rifle Association, the National Rifle Association, the Hawaii Hunting Association, and eighteen individuals.  Written comments in opposition to the measure were received from the City and County of Honolulu Police Department, the County of Hawaii Police Department, the Chief of Police for Maui County, the Injury Prevention Advisory Committee, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will streamline the firearms registration process by reducing the number of required visits to the police station per registration.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, style, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2938, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2938, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair