64 total bills, 40 anti-gun bills,
11 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Hawaii Firearm Legislation
64 total bills, 40 anti-gun bills,
11 pro-gun bills for this session
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note: Any bill pending at the final adjournment of a regular session in an odd-numbered year are reintroduced with the same status to the next regular session. However, regardless of its status at the conclusion of the first regular session, before the carried-over bill is enacted, it shall pass at least one reading in the house in which it originated.
Title: Relating To Public Safety.
Description: Prohibits any person, including a hotel guest, from storing, keeping, carrying, or possessing any firearm or ammunition in any hotel room assigned to a guest with certain exceptions.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To The Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation.
Description: Prohibits the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation from investing in fossil fuel or firearm companies. Earmarks a portion of the Corporation's profits to be deposited into a subaccount of the Corporation's Revolving Fund. (HB342 HD1)
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Clarifies that failure to register a firearm within the required time period does not relieve the owner of the duty to register the firearm. Allows the owner of an unregistered firearm to register the firearm thereafter without penalty.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Authorizes county police department to issue a person a license to carry a handgun in all counties of the State. Extends the expiration date of a license from one year to five years.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Shooting Range Protection.
Description: Provides protections to shooting range operators and individuals engaged in target shooting from burdensome regulations related to noise pollution and similar noise control ordinances.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Adds the requirement to notify the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the gun permit application background check.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Related To Firearms.
Description: Defines "assault rifle" and "assault shotgun". Amends the definition of "assault pistol" to expand what types of guns are considered assault pistols. Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Electric Guns.
Description: Repeals the ban on electric guns. Establishes a regulatory structure for the sale and transfer of electric guns by licensed persons. Restricts the use, storage, transfer, and disposal of electric guns. Requires training and education on electric guns. Prohibits certain individuals from possessing and using electric guns. Prohibits the use of electric guns in the commission of crimes.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Short form bill relating to firearms.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Guns.
Description: Requires an applicant to successfully complete a firearms safety or training course within thirty days before applying for or renewing a license to carry a concealed or unconcealed weapon. Repeals the ban on electric guns.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits any person from distributing, transporting, importing, bringing, or causing to be brought into the State; keeping for sale, or offering or exposing for sale; or transferring, manufacturing, possessing, selling, bartering, trading, gifting, or acquiring any assault weapon. Defines assault weapon. Authorizes the courts to impose an extended term of imprisonment for an offender who uses an assault weapon in the course of committing certain crimes.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Gun Violence Protective Orders.
Description: Establishes a process allowing law enforcement officers and family or household members to obtain a court order to prevent a person from accessing firearms and ammunition where the person poses a danger of causing bodily injury to oneself or another.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Authorizes the attorney general to grant licenses to carry a pistol or revolver and ammunition therefor concealed or unconcealed statewide. Limits the county chiefs of police authority to grant licenses to carry. Amends the requirements and fee for licenses to carry.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Conforms the permitting process for rifles and shotguns to the process for pistols and revolvers.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Repeals provisions that allow the lending of certain firearms for use within the State for up to 15 days and for use outside the State for up to 75 days without being subject to a background check and other requirements under chapter 134, HRS. Prohibits transferring the possession or ownership of any firearm to any person except as provided under chapter 134, HRS.
Last Action: The committee(s) on PVM/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits any person from possessing a loaded firearm while intoxicated, unless the person is in their own dwelling. Violation is a petty misdemeanor.
Last Action: The committee(s) on JUD/PVM recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Title: Relating To Gun Violence.
Description: Short form bill relating to gun violence.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Makes it a Class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm having no serial number. Amends certain requirements relating to firearms registration.
Last Action: The committee(s) on JUD/PVM recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires a separate application and permit for the acquisition of each rifle or shotgun and shortens the duration of the permit's validity from 1 year to 10 days.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, referral sheet 2
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of 10 rounds, regardless of the type of firearm with which the magazine is compatible. Makes an exception for possession and use by law enforcement agencies and officers.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, referral sheet 2
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the Attorney General's authority, and clarifies the respective county police chiefs' existing authority, to grant licenses to carry concealed or unconcealed firearms. Specifies training requirements for license applicants. Amends the fee from a per-license to a per-application basis and increases the fee.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 2
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To The Use Of Deadly Force.
Description: Amends the law relating to the use of deadly force to clarify that in certain circumstances, a person using deadly force has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand the person's ground.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, referral sheet 2
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds, regardless of the type of firearm with which the magazine is compatible. Allows possession of large-capacity magazines that were legally possessed prior to the effective date of this Act. Allows acquisition by means of inheritance of large-capacity magazines that were legally in possession prior to the effective date of this Act. Allows possession and use by law enforcement agencies and officers. Allows the use of blank-fire assault weapons and detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds for use solely as props for motion picture film or television program production when authorized by the chief of police of the appropriate county and not in violation of federal law. (SD2)
Last Action: Deferred one day.
Last Action Date: July 10, 2020
Title: Relating To Self-defense.
Description: Clarifies when force may be used to protect self, property, or a third person against unlawful force that could cause bodily harm.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, referral sheet 4
Last Action Date: January 23, 2020
Title: Related To Concealed Carry Reform.
Description: Amends concealed carry statute to align with constitutional law. Add more rigorous training measures for licensed concealed carry residents.
Last Action: Referred to PVM, JUD, referral sheet 5
Last Action Date: January 27, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits certain individuals who, as a minor, were diagnosed with behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders or adjudicated by the family court to have committed a certain number of crimes of violence from owning firearms unless the person has been medically documented to be no longer either adversely affected by the behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder or deemed a danger to themselves or others. Requires records of these diagnoses or adjudications to be made available to law enforcement officials.
Last Action: The committee(s) on PVM/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Title: Relating To Electric Guns.
Description: Repeals the existing law that bans electric guns, and replaces it with a law that restricts the ownership, use, storage, and disposal of electric guns, regulates the sale, distribution, and transfer of electric guns, requires training and education on electric guns, prohibits certain individuals from the possession and use of electric guns, and prohibits the carrying or use of electric guns in the commission of crimes. Establishes permitting requirement to acquire electric projectile guns and registration requirements. (SD2)
Last Action: Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417).
Last Action Date: July 8, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Authorizes county police chiefs to issue permits to acquire firearms to U.S. nationals who otherwise meet all of the applicable criteria under section 134-2, HRS.
Last Action: Referred to PVM, JUD, referral sheet 5
Last Action Date: January 27, 2020
Title: Relating To Crime.
Description: Provides reimbursement of reasonable legal costs to defendants charged with an offense under certain sections of the Penal Code if the defendant is found not guilty because the use of force upon or toward another person is justifiable because of self-protection, protection of others, or protection of property.
Last Action: Referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 5
Last Action Date: January 27, 2020
Title: Relating To Mental Health.
Description: Requires the chief of police in a county issuing a firearm permit to conduct a mandatory review of an applicant's mental health records.
Last Action: The committee(s) on JUD/PVM recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Title: Relating To The Uniform Probate Code.
Description: Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate. Requires the police department to certify that all registered firearms in an estate and other firearms of which the police department has been notified are properly transferred or disposed of before the estate may close. Takes effect 12/1/2020. (SD1)
Last Action: Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417).
Last Action Date: July 8, 2020
Title: Relating To Protective Orders.
Description: Permits a law enforcement officer to search a person convicted of violating certain temporary restraining orders or protective orders, including the person's motor vehicle and the person's residence, for firearms without obtaining a search warrant if the law enforcement officer has reason to believe acts of abuse, malicious property damage, or harassment by the person are imminent. Specifies that a seized firearm shall not be used for a subsequent conviction if the original search lacked probable cause but authorizes law enforcement to maintain the firearm until the registered owner can prove the firearm will be safely stored.
Last Action: The committee(s) on PVM/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms Ammunition.
Description: Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: March 12, 2020
Title: Relating To Gun Violence Prevention.
Description: Establishes the gun violence and violent crimes commission. Requires reports to the Legislature. Makes it a class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm having no serial number. Amends certain requirements relating to firearms registration. (SD2)
Last Action: Transmitted to Governor.
Last Action Date: July 10, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes uniform firearms safety and training requirements for applicants of permits to acquire firearms, regardless of firearm type. Prohibits the issuance of permits to acquire firearms to aliens who are not state law enforcement officers.
Last Action: Referred to PVM, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 5
Last Action Date: January 27, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Increases the maximum detachable ammunition magazine capacity for pistols that may be manufactured, possessed, sold, bartered, traded, gifted, transferred, or acquired.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Authorizes the chief of police from each respective county to issue licenses to carry a concealed firearm. Specifies processes for license applications, renewals, revocations, and record keeping. Strictly prohibits carrying concealed firearms under certain circumstances. Makes various conforming amendments.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Electric Guns.
Description: Repeals the ban on the possession, offering or holding for sale, selling, giving, lending, or delivering of electric guns.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Electric Guns.
Description: Repeals ban on electric guns.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Adds the requirement to notify the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the gun permit application background check.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires a person to report the person's lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for failure to report. Requires suspension of any fee related to the Rap Back system until the Rap Back system, a criminal record monitoring service, is fully implemented. (SB621 HD1)
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Authorizes the department of the attorney general to develop and implement a state program to allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm in Hawaii pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004. Makes a conforming amendment to state firearm laws.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Related To Firearms.
Description: Requires the chiefs of police to adopt procedures to: require that any person granted a license to carry an open or concealed firearm be qualified to use the firearm in a safe manner by successful completion of a course of instruction and firearm qualification test; and require that any person who has been approved for a license to carry an open or concealed firearm, who is not employed as a security guard by an authorized security company, show proof of valid firearms or self-defense insurance prior to being issued the license.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Clarifies that failure to register a firearm within the required time period does not relieve the owner of the duty to register the firearm. Allows the owner of an unregistered firearm to register the firearm thereafter without penalty. (SD1)
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Related To Firearms.
Description: Defines "assault rifle" and "assault shotgun". Amends the definition of "assault pistol" to expand what types of guns are considered assault pistols. Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity.
Last Action: Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Last Action Date: December 1, 2019
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits any person from possessing a loaded firearm while intoxicated, unless the person is in their own dwelling. Violation is a petty misdemeanor.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 7, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Makes it a Class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm having no serial number. Amends certain requirements relating to firearms registration.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires a separate application and permit for the acquisition of each rifle or shotgun and shortens the duration of the permit's validity from 1 year to 10 days.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of 10 rounds, regardless of the type of firearm with which the magazine is compatible. Makes an exception for possession and use by law enforcement agencies and officers.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the Attorney General's authority, and clarifies the respective county police chiefs' existing authority, to grant licenses to carry concealed or unconcealed firearms. Specifies training requirements for license applicants. Amends the fee from a per-license to a per-application basis and increases the fee.
Last Action: Re-Referred to PSM/JDC, WAM.
Last Action Date: January 28, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires the department of public safety to establish a firearm buyback center in each county in the State. Makes an appropriation.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC/WAM.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2020
Title: Relating To Electric Guns.
Description: Repeals the ban on electric guns. Establishes a regulatory structure for the sale and transfer of electric guns and electric projectile guns by licensed persons. Allows for the use of electric guns for self-defense, defense of another person, and protection of property. Restricts the use, storage, transfer, and disposal of electric guns. Requires training and education on electric guns and electric projectile guns. Prohibits certain individuals from possessing and using electric guns and electric projectile guns. Prohibits the use of electric guns in the commission of crimes. (SD1)
Last Action: Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC.
Last Action Date: February 12, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits a person who has been twice convicted within ten years of committing the offense of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from owning, possessing, or controlling any firearm or ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires a separate application and permit for the acquisition of each rifle or shotgun and shortens the duration of the permit's validity from 1 year to 10 days.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the Attorney General's authority, and clarifies the respective county police chiefs' existing authority, and requires the Attorney General to grant licenses to carry concealed or unconcealed firearms. Specifies training requirements for license applicants. Amends the fee from a perlicense to a per-application basis and increases the fee. (SD1)
Last Action: Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.
Last Action Date: February 13, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds, regardless of the type of firearm with which the magazine is compatible, except for magazines that was legally possessed prior to this Act. Prohibits the sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition, except by means of inheritance, of such large-capacity magazines. Makes an exception for possession and use by law enforcement agencies and officers. (SD2)
Last Action: This measure has been deleted from the meeting scheduled on Wednesday 03-18-20 2:00PM in conference room 325.
Last Action Date: March 16, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Defines "assault rifle" and "assault shotgun". Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity. Prohibits anyone from bringing or causing to be brought into the State an assault rifle or assault shotgun. Prohibits the sale or transfer of any assault rifle or assault shotgun in the State, unless sold or transferred to an authorized person.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms Ammunition.
Description: Prohibits any person from selling ammunition or shell casings for any firearm without proof from purchaser of registration of the appropriate firearm. Authorizes registered owners of firearms to designate an alternate person to purchase ammunition. Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner as firearms. Requires the attorney general to update firearm registration forms. Effective 7/1/2021. (HD1)
Last Action: Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Aquino, Cachola, Creagan, Cullen, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, McKelvey, San Buenaventura, Thielen, Todd, Yamane voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) DeCoite, Eli, Har, Kong, Matsumoto, McDermott, Okimoto, Quinlan, Say, Tokioka, Ward voting no (11) and Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa, Matayoshi excused (2).
Last Action Date: June 25, 2020
Title: Relating To Crime.
Description: Provides reimbursement of reasonable legal costs to defendants charged with an offense under certain sections of the Penal Code if the defendant is found not guilty because the use of force upon or toward another person is justifiable because of self-protection, protection of others, or protection of property.
Last Action: Re-Referred to JDC, WAM.
Last Action Date: January 29, 2020
Title: Relating To Electric Guns.
Description: Repeals the ban on the possession, offering for sale, holding for sale, selling, giving, lending, or delivering of electric guns.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Specifies that a rifle or shotgun may be lent to an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older. Repeals the authorization to lend a rifle or shotgun without a permit. Restricts the lending of a rifle or shotgun to twelve hours. Repeals language that authorized the use of a rifle or shotgun outside of the State for up to seventy-five days. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and is not prohibited to own or possess a firearm. Prohibits a person from lending a firearm, in addition to a person who is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm, to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Makes it a Class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm with no serial number. Amends certain requirements relating to firearms registration.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 7, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Amends HRS 134-8 to include fifty caliber guns in the list of prohibited weapons.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 7, 2020
Title: Relating To Firearm Registration.
Description: Requires every person who permanently moves firearms out of the State to contact the county police department where the firearms are registered to notify that police department that the firearms have been moved out of State within five days of their removal from the State. Imposes a fine of $100 per firearm for violations. (HD1)
Last Action: Enrolled to Governor.
Last Action Date: July 10, 2020
