STAND. COM. REP. NO. 133-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2622

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2622 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for the State's Gun Buyback Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement and two individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from Hawaii Firearms Coalition and three individuals.

Your Committee finds that appropriating state funds for the voluntary Gun Buyback Program is an effective and efficient use of those funds.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $825,000 for fiscal year 2024-2025.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2622, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2622, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair