STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2219

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2813

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2813 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GUARDIANSHIP,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow for the information from adult guardianship appointment orders to be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee finds that there is a need to ensure that those who are mentally incapacitated do not have the opportunity to possess a firearm.  Under existing laws, neither firearms sellers nor police have any way to know if a person has been appointed a guardian as an adult.  This measure will allow guardianship appointment information to be shared with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and disclosed to local law enforcement for the purposes of firearms permitting and registration.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2813, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2813, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

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

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair