Bill Text: HI HB679 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Firearm Owner Absolute Liability; National Rifle Association Certified Firearms Instructors; Exemption
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 301, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1418). [HB679 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB679-Amended.html
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 41-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 679
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sirs:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 679, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to exempt National Rifle Association certified instructors from absolute liability for personal injury or property damage during the course of providing firearms training or safety courses or classes at a firing range to persons seeking to acquire a permit for the acquisition of a pistol or revolver in accordance with section 134-2(g)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS). Additionally, this measure specifies that the exemption shall not be construed to relieve a National Rifle Association certified firearms instructor from any other applicable tort liability.
Your Committee on Conference notes that "firing range" is not defined in this measure; however, existing statutes contain reference to the term "firing range". Section 134-2, HRS, requires, as one alternative toward obtaining a permit, completion of a firearms training or safety course or class conducted by a state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearms instructor or a certified military firearms instructor that includes firing training at a firing range. Section 134-3, HRS, requires written notification from a firing range or target shooting business for nonresident aliens who wish to meet firearm registration requirements.
Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by changing its effective date to take effect upon approval.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 679, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 679, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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______________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Co-Chair |
____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Co-Chair |
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______________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Co-Chair |