48 total bills, 41 anti-gun bills,
5 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Hawaii Firearm Legislation
48 total bills, 41 anti-gun bills,
5 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 Firearms Possession.
Description: Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requires the applicable chief of police to search firearm permit and registration records for those individuals before serving a protective order or restraining order involving firearms or ammunition, and to seize any firearms or ammunition that were not disposed of. Requires police to seize firearms and ammunition in domestic abuse cases that are in plain view of the officer or discovered by consensual search.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Report On Systems Of Firearms Insurance And Other Financial Responsibility Requirements Pertaining To Firearms.
Description: Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Report On Systems Of Firearms Insurance And Other Financial Responsibility Requirements Pertaining To Firearms.
Last Action: Received notice of Agreement and Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 891).
Last Action Date: April 28, 2023
Title: Relating To Safety At Home.
Description: Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property, unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly force at their place of work.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Report On Systems Of Firearms Insurance And Other Financial Responsibility Requirements Pertaining To Firearms.
Description: Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Report On Systems Of Firearms Insurance And Other Financial Responsibility Requirements Pertaining To Firearms.
Last Action: Resolution adopted in final form.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Creates the offense of negligent concealment of a firearm by a licensee.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does not have a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, to keep the firearm in an enclosed container that is locked, other than the glove compartment or console, and not in plain view.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes standards of conduct for firearm industry members. Authorizes any person who has suffered harm because of a firearm industry member's violation of the standards of conduct to bring a civil action. Authorizes the attorney general or any county attorney or public prosecutor to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violation of standards of conduct. (HD1)
Last Action: Act 028, 04/26/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1129).
Last Action Date: April 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the public carry of firearms in sensitive places and upon private business establishment or charitable establishment premises, except under certain circumstances.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits concealed firearms in certain sensitive locations. Requires the department of the attorney general to publish an annual report on licenses to carry. Amends requirements for firearm permitting and licenses to carry firearms. Effective 7/1/2050.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 2
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To The Use Of Force In Self-protection.
Description: Repeals the duty to retreat or take over evasive action with respect to the use of deadly force as a justifiable means of self-protection.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Adds the requirement of notifying the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the gun permit application background check process.
Last Action: The committee(s) on JHA recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Last Action Date: February 14, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibited to own or possess a firearm. Specifies that an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older may be lent a rifle or shotgun for a period not to exceed twelve hours. Repeals the authorization to use a rifle or shotgun outside of the State for up to seventy-five days. Repeals the authorization to lend a rifle or shotgun without a permit.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Criminal History Background Checks.
Description: Authorizes a fingerprint-based criminal history record check by the county police departments of applicants for licenses to sell, offer to sell, distribute, or otherwise transfer electric guns or cartridges. (HD1)
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: March 20, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits firearms in certain locations and premises and provides for enhanced sentencing. Requires possession and disclosure of a license to carry. Prohibits leaving an unsecured firearm in a vehicle unattended. Prohibits consuming or being under the influence of alcohol, an intoxicating liquor, or a controlled substance when carrying a firearm. Prohibits carrying or possessing firearms on certain private property open to the public without express authorization. Requires annual reports from the Department of the Attorney General on carry licenses. Amends the requirements for, and revocation of, firearms permits and licenses. Amends the disqualification of persons from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm. Expands the qualified immunity for health care providers who provide information on firearms applicants to include physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses. (SD1)
Last Action: The committee on JDC deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: April 6, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Increases the minimum classroom instruction time for state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearm safety courses from four to fourteen hours. Requires firearm safety courses to include additional subject matter. Requires applicants for a license to carry a concealed firearm to pass a written test, participate in an in person interview, and provide information to demonstrate that the applicant is of good moral character and sufficient mental competence.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms Insurance.
Description: Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, CPC, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Authorizes county police departments to issue a person a license to carry a handgun in all counties of the State. Extends the expiration date of a license from 1 year to 5 years. Repeals "proper cause" requirements invalidated by the United States Supreme Court in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S.Ct. 2111 (2022).
Last Action: Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Adds the requirement of notifying the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the gun permit application background check process.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2023
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.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms Possession.
Description: Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requires the applicable chief of police to search firearm permit and registration records for those individuals before serving a protective order or restraining order involving firearms or ammunition, and to seize any firearms or ammunition that were not disposed of. Requires police to seize firearms and ammunition in domestic abuse cases that are in plain view of the officer or discovered by consensual search.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2023
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. Requires a fee of not less than $100 for permits, or applications for permits.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC/WAM.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2023
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 and false reporting.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2023
Title: Relating To Prohibition Of Firearms On School Property.
Description: Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violators are guilty of a class B felony. Requires children enrolled in school who are in violation to be excluded from school attendance for not less than one year. Defines school, school bus, school property, and school-sponsored function.
Last Action: Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDC.
Last Action Date: February 17, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Creates the offense of negligent concealment of a firearm by a licensee.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Relating To Firearms. Short form bill.
Last Action: Referred to JDC.
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To The Public Carrying Of Firearms.
Description: Provides that Hawaii is a "constitutional carry" state. Repeals the licensing procedure set forth in section 134-9, HRS, under which county police chiefs have the discretion to decide whether an applicant may receive a license to carry, concealed or unconcealed, a pistol or revolver and ammunition therefor. Authorizes a person who is a United States citizen aged 21 or older to carry, concealed or unconcealed, a firearm and ammunition therefor without any requirement to demonstrate a special need for self-defense, provided that certain other conditions are met. Repeals "place to keep" provisions of the HRS.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the misdemeanor offense of brandishing a firearm.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Increases the minimum classroom instruction time for state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearm safety courses from four to fourteen hours. Requires firearm safety courses to include additional subject matter. Requires applicants for a license to carry a concealed firearm to pass a written test, participate in an in person interview, and provide information to demonstrate that the applicant is of good moral character and sufficient mental competence.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes the crime of possession of a firearm in a sensitive location as a class C felony. Imposes a duty to inform law enforcement upon contact on concealed and unconcealed carry permit holders. Defines sensitive location.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibited to own or possess a firearm. Specifies that an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older may be lent a rifle or shotgun for a period not to exceed twelve hours. Repeals the authorization to use a rifle or shotgun outside of the State for up to seventy-five days. Repeals the authorization to lend a rifle or shotgun without a permit.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes standards of conduct for firearm industry members. Authorizes the attorney general or any county attorney or public prosecutor to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violation of standards of conduct.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does not have a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, to keep the firearm in an enclosed container that is locked, other than the glove compartment or console, and not in plain view.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2023
Title: Relating To Elections.
Description: Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes, among other actions (1) The carrying of any firearm or weapon and (2) The act of photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate election official when such actions occur at or near a voter service center, place of deposit, or polling place.
Last Action: The committee on PSM deferred the measure.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits firearms in certain locations and premises. Requires possession and disclosure of a license to carry. Prohibits leaving an unsecured firearm in a vehicle unattended. Prohibits consuming or being under the influence of alcohol, an intoxicating liquor, or a controlled substance when carrying a firearm. Prohibits carrying or possessing firearms on certain private property without express authorization. Requires annual reports from the department of the attorney general on carry licenses. Amends the requirements for, and revocation of, firearms permits and licenses. Amends the disqualification of persons from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm. Expands the qualified immunity for health care providers who provide information on firearms applicants to include physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses. (CD1)
Last Action: Act 052, 06/02/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1152).
Last Action Date: June 2, 2023
Title: Relating To Criminal History Background Checks.
Description: Authorizes a fingerprint-based criminal history background check by the county police departments of applicants for licenses to sell, offer to sell, distribute, or otherwise transfer electric guns or cartridges.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC/CPN.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Amends, clarifies, and enacts provisions of chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS); amends section 707-716, HRS; and amends and clarifies section 846-2.7(b), HRS. Amends and enacts requirements and processes regarding permits to acquire and licenses to carry a firearm; updates criteria governing when firearm ownership, possession, or control is prohibited; identifies locations within the State where carrying or possessing firearms is prohibited; requires a person carrying a firearm pursuant to a license to have in the person's immediate possession the license and documentary evidence that the firearm being carried is registered; requires a person carrying a firearm in public pursuant to a license to maintain insurance coverage; requires that when a person carrying a firearm is stopped by a law enforcement officer or is a driver or passenger in a vehicle stopped by a law enforcement officer, the person shall immediately disclose to the law enforcement officer that the person is carrying a firearm and, upon request, identify the specific location of the firearm and present to the law enforcement officer a license or credentials to carry a firearm; prohibits leaving an unsecured firearm in a vehicle unattended; prohibits consuming or being under the influence of alcohol or intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance while carrying a firearm; prohibits carrying a firearm on private property open to the public without express authorization; and amends, clarifies, and enacts other provisions relating to firearms. Provides that criminal history record checks may be conducted by county police departments on applicants for licenses to carry a pistol or revolver and ammunition pursuant to section 134-9, HRS.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Firearms Insurance.
Description: Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC/CPN.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: Relating To Weapon Safety.
Description: Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is restricted or prohibited. Imposes certain firearm storage requirements for individuals licensed to carry firearms. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to submit to the Legislature, over a 4-year period, semi-annual reports on the public carrying of firearms.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC/WAM.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
