STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2751

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2436

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2436, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to shorten the time period for voluntary surrender of firearms and ammunition upon disqualification from ownership, possession, or control from thirty days to twenty-four hours.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawai‘i; Honolulu Police Department; Injury Prevention Advisory Committee; Parents and Children Together; Hoomana Pono, LLC; Filipina Advocacy Network; and thirty individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the National Rifle Association of America, Honolulu County Republican Party, and twenty-seven individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that reducing the time period for voluntary surrender of firearms and ammunition upon disqualification from ownership, possession, or control will reduce the risk of firearm violence after disqualification. A time period that is unreasonably short could lead to avoidable hostile encounters between disqualified persons and law enforcement and a longer period of time for surrender may be more appropriate.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the time period for voluntary surrender of firearms and ammunition upon disqualification from ownership, possession, or control from twenty-four hours to seven days; and

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

Your Committee notes the concerns that the existing time period of thirty days for voluntary surrender needs to change and that a time period of seven days may still be inappropriately long, and thus encourages further discussion of what an appropriate time period should be as this measure progresses.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2436, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2436, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair