30 total bills, 20 anti-gun bills,
2 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Hawaii Firearm Legislation
30 total bills, 20 anti-gun bills,
2 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.
Description: Requires retail sellers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Property Forfeiture.
Description: Increases transparency and accountability surrounding property forfeiture. Clarifies which property is subject to forfeiture. Amends the authorized disposition of forfeited property and the proceeds thereof. Repeals language that requires the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act to be construed liberally.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires a trigger lock for all firearms purchases from a licensed dealer. Requires licensed firearms dealers to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Amends the requirements for the secure storage of firearms and establishes fines for violations. Amends the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, CPC, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Provides that felons that are in violation of the prohibition against owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition are subject to a mandatory prison term.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Clarifies the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Amends the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm to establish felony penalties for when a minor obtains an unsecured firearm and it results in injury or death.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
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 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Public Order.
Description: Establishes the offense of loitering on public property and adds trespassing on public property to the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree. Establishes the homeless case management program and special fund, administered by the judiciary for the benefit of persons experiencing homelessness.
Last Action: Referred to HSH, JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms or firearm parts other than at or between specific locations and in an enclosed container.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Medical Cannabis.
Description: Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use a fit-for-duty test for medical cannabis qualifying patients in potentially dangerous occupations. Exempts certain occupations. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD1)
Last Action: Reported from LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 10) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2025
Title: Relating To Uncrewed Aircraft Offenses.
Description: Increases the penalty for using an uncrewed aircraft in the furtherance of the commission of a felony.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the possession, transfer, and sale of ghost guns. Establishes mandatory minimum sentencing for use of a ghost gun in the commission of a felony.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Agricultural Crimes.
Description: Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Crimes Council. Expands the duties of the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with and support the Council. Authorizes the Council to withdraw and deposit moneys, revenues, and fines into and out of the Animal Industry Special Fund. Appropriates funds.
Last Action: The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.
Last Action Date: January 29, 2025
Title: Relating To Gun Violence Prevention.
Description: Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to conduct community outreach on gun violence prevention, develop and administer a grant program for gun violence prevention, and develop and administer a gun violence resource bank. Establishes the Gun Violence Prevention Special Fund and appropriates funds into and out of the special fund. Appropriates funds.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 2
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Self Defense.
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 3
Last Action Date: January 23, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Establishes prohibitions on assault rifles, assault shotguns, and .50 caliber rifles. Expands the ban on high-capacity detachable magazines. Establishes exceptions.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 23, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms Reporting.
Description: Amends the annual reporting requirements imposed on the Department of the Attorney General and the chief of police of each county regarding licenses to carry firearms.
Last Action: Referred to JHA, referral sheet 3
Last Action Date: January 23, 2025
Title: Relating To Trespass.
Description: Establishes the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land. Prohibits persons being prosecuted for or convicted of the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to AEN, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 17, 2025
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: Referred to PSM/CPN, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 17, 2025
Title: Relating To Explosion Detection Technology.
Description: Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology equipment to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks. Appropriates moneys to the counties as a grant in aid.
Last Action: Referred to PSM/EIG, WAM/JDC.
Last Action Date: January 17, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the possession, transfer, and sale of ghost guns. Establishes mandatory minimum sentencing for use of a ghost gun in the commission of a felony.
Last Action: Re-Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2025
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 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Property Forfeiture.
Description: Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for moneys in the criminal forfeiture fund. Requires the Attorney General to adopt rules necessary to carry out the purpose of the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act. Amends the deadline for the Attorney General to report to the Legislature on the use of the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act. Limits the transfer of certain forfeiture property to federal agencies. Establishes records requirements.
Last Action: Referred to JDC, WAM.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms or firearm parts other than at or between specific locations and in an enclosed container.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
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 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Weapons.
Description: Prohibits any person from openly carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon. Includes bladed weapon in the list of deadly or dangerous weapons. Establishes an affirmative defense to a prosecution for the purposes of lawful self-defense and transporting a weapon.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 21, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Amends the prohibition on certain assault weapons to include .50 caliber rifles and assault weapon attachments. Modernizes the prohibition on assault pistols to include pistols with one or more prohibited feature. Prohibits firearms other than pistols with a detachable magazine with over a twenty-round capacity. Prohibits persons from bringing or causing to be brought into the State a .50 caliber rifle or assault weapon attachment. Prohibits the sale or transfer of a .50 caliber rifle or assault weapon attachment in the State, unless the .50 caliber rifle or assault weapon attachment is sold or transferred to an authorized individual. Creates exceptions for the acquisition and possession of prohibited firearms for members of law enforcement and the military.
Last Action: Referred to PSM/CPN, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2025
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 23, 2025
Title: Relating To Gun Violence Prevention.
Description: Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to conduct community outreach on gun violence prevention, develop and administer a grant program for gun violence prevention, and develop and administer a gun violence resource bank. Establishes the Gun Violence Prevention Special Fund and appropriates funds into and out of the special fund. Appropriates funds.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, WAM/JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires retail sellers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.
Last Action: Referred to PSM, CPN/JDC.
Last Action Date: January 23, 2025
Title: Relating To The Cranston Duke Pia Act.
Description: Establishes that, in certain circumstances, an actor rightfully present on agricultural lands may exercise deadly force with a right to stand the actor's ground and not retreat.
Last Action: Referred to AEN, JDC.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2025
