Bill Text: HI SB950 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electric Guns

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-21 - (S) Act 131, 5/21/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 589). [SB950 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB950-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  715-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 950

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 950, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the safety of the State's law enforcement officers and deter the use of lethal force when the need to subdue a threatening individual arises by authorizing the law enforcement officers of the Department of Public Safety (PSD), and the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Officers of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to use electric guns in the course of carrying out their official duties.

 

     PSD; the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO; and several concerned individual supported this bill.  DLNR supported this measure with amendments.  The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and a concerned individual opposed this bill.  The Community Alliance on Prisons submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by requiring DLNR and PSD law enforcement officers to receive training from a manufacturer of electric guns at the same time to ensure cost savings.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 950, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 950, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair