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. 2562

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 950

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 950, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize law enforcement officers of the Department of Public Safety and conservation and resources enforcement officers of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to use electric guns and related equipment while performing their duties.

 

     This measure also requires law enforcement officers of the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Safety who are authorized to use electric guns and related equipment to first receive training in the use of electric guns.  Additionally, this measure requires the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to obtain law enforcement accreditation or recognition from a nationally-recognized law enforcement accreditation or credentialing program in the use of electric guns, prior to purchasing and obtaining training in the use of electric guns and related equipment.

 

     Your Committee finds that electric guns provide a viable alternative to the escalation of the use of deadly force when dealing with non-compliant combative suspects, particularly in remote areas of the State.  Electric guns reduce the risk of serious injury or death by providing a less-than-lethal means of exerting force when necessary.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 950, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 950, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair