STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3255

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3054

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require every person who permanently moves firearms out of the State to contact the county police department where the firearms are registered to provide notice that the firearms have been moved out of State within five days of removal from the State.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Kaua‘i Police Department and thirty-one individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Mayor of Hawai‘i County.

Your Committee finds that, based on the recent report by the Legislative Research Bureau on statistical data relating to firearms, there is no accurate data on the number of firearms in the State, despite the fact that the State has some of the strongest gun safety laws in the nation. This measure requires persons who permanently remove firearms from the state to report doing so to the appropriate county police department to improve data collection on firearms.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Providing that any person who fails to timely notify the appropriate police department upon permanently moving firearms out of the State shall be subject to a civil penalty of $250 per firearm; and

(2) 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 Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair