Report Title:

Electric Guns

 

Description:

Authorizes 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.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1132

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 134-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:

     "(c)  This section shall not apply to law enforcement officers of county police [and sheriff] departments of this State, law enforcement officers of the department of public safety, and conservation and resources enforcement officers of the department of land and natural resources, or vendors providing electric guns to those entities; provided that electric guns shall at all times remain in the custody and control of the law enforcement officers of the county police [or sheriff] departments[.], the law enforcement officers of the department of public safety, or the conservation and resources enforcement officers of the department of land and natural resources.

     (d)  The county police [and sheriff] departments of this State, the department of public safety, and the department of land and natural resources shall maintain records regarding every electric gun in their custody and control.  [Such] The records shall report every instance of usage of the electric guns; in particular, records shall be maintained in a similar manner as for those of discharging of firearms.  The county police [and sheriff] departments, the department of public safety, and the department of land and natural resources shall annually report to the legislature regarding these records twenty days before the beginning of each session."

     SECTION 2.  The department of land and natural resources and the department of public safety shall ensure that each of their respective law enforcement officers who are authorized to use an electric gun and related equipment shall first receive training from the manufacturer or a manufacturer approved training program and by manufacturer certified or approved instructors in the use of electric guns prior to deployment of the electric guns and related equipment in public.

     SECTION 3.  In addition, the conservation and resources enforcement program of the department of land and natural resources shall pursue law enforcement accreditation or recognition from a nationally recognized law enforcement accreditation or credentialing program in the use of electric guns prior to purchasing electric guns and related equipment and obtaining training for the use of the electric guns by their law enforcement officers.

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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By Request