REPORT TITLE:
Firearms; Pol. Off.; Dom. Vio.


DESCRIPTION:
Modifies firearm prohibition exemptions for law enforcement
officers by excluding from the exemption, law enforcement
officers convicted of an offense involving abuse of a family or
household member. (SB952 HD1).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           592
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            H.D. 1
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO FIREARMS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 134-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  Sections 134-6 to 134-9, except section 134-7(f),
 
 4 shall not apply:
 
 5      (1)  To [members of police departments, sheriffs, and law
 
 6           enforcement officers;] state and county law enforcement
 
 7           officers; provided that such persons are not convicted
 
 8           of an offense involving abuse of a family and household
 
 9           member under section 709-906;
 
10      (2)  To members of the armed forces of the State and of the
 
11           United States and mail carriers while in the
 
12           performance of their respective duties if those duties
 
13           require them to be armed;
 
14      (3)  To regularly enrolled members of any organization duly
 
15           authorized to purchase or receive the weapons from the
 
16           United States or from the State, provided the members
 
17           are either at, or going to or from, their places of
 
18           assembly or target practice;
 
19      (4)  To persons employed by the State, or subdivisions
 
20           thereof, or the United States while in the performance
 

 
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 1           of their respective duties or while going to and from
 
 2           their respective places of duty if those duties require
 
 3           them to be armed;
 
 4      (5)  To aliens employed by the State, or subdivisions
 
 5           thereof, or the United States while in the performance
 
 6           of their respective duties or while going to and from
 
 7           their respective places of duty if those duties require
 
 8           them to be armed;
 
 9      (6)  To police officers on official assignment in Hawaii
 
10           from any state which by compact permits police officers
 
11           from Hawaii while on official assignment in that state
 
12           to carry firearms without registration.  The governor
 
13           of the State or the governor's duly authorized
 
14           representative may enter into compacts with other
 
15           states to carry out this [section] paragraph."
 
16      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
17 New statutory material is underscored.
 
18      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.