Report Title:

Firearms; Pardons

Description:

Allows a person who has been pardoned to own, possess, or control a firearm.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

991

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to firearms.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 134-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) [No] Unless pardoned for the offense, no person who is under indictment for, or has waived indictment for, or has been bound over to the circuit court for, or has been convicted in this State or elsewhere of having committed a felony, or any crime of violence, or an illegal sale of any drug shall own, possess, or control any firearm or ammunition therefor."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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