CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 69-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

RE:    H.B. No. 2632

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2632, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to require a person who has been disqualified from legal gun ownership due to mental illness or emotional disorder, substance abuse, or involuntary or emergency psychiatric hospitalization to surrender all of the person's firearms and ammunition to the Chief of Police immediately upon notice of disqualification.  This measure also authorizes seizure of firearms and ammunition by the Chief of Police if the person does not voluntarily surrender them. 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Permitting, rather than requiring, the Chief of Police to seize firearms and ammunition if the disqualified person does not immediately surrender them; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2632, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2632, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair	____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Co-Chair
____________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Co-Chair	____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair