THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Will Espero, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 11, 2016

TIME:

1:15 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2461

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.

Beginning January 1, 2017, requires practitioners who administer, prescribe, or dispense a controlled substance under schedules II through IV to register with the electronic prescription accountability system as part of the renewal process for controlled substance registration.  Expands access to investigative information in the electronic prescription accountability system to certain individuals and for certain purposes.

 

PSM, CPH

SB 2332

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE.

Authorizes a naturopathic physician to prescribe controlled substances that are consistent with naturopathic medical practice.  Clarifies that narcotic drugs shall not be included within the naturopathic formulary.

 

PSM, CPH

SB 2956

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Requires firearm owners who have been disqualified from owning a firearm due to mental illness to immediately surrender their firearms to the chief of police upon notification and authorizes the chief of police to seize the firearms if the owner fails to comply.

 

PSM, JDL

SB 2960

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.

Allows the county police departments to receive notification if a new applicant who is granted a permit to possess a firearm is arrested for a criminal offense anywhere in the country.

 

PSM, JDL

SB 2916

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Includes misdemeanor offenses under chapter 134 (Firearms, Ammunition and Dangerous Weapons), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the offenses that disqualify parolees from the provisions of Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.

 

PSM, JDL

SB 2954

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Authorizes the Hawaii criminal justice data center to access firearm registration data.

 

PSM, JDL

SB 2813

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO GUARDIANSHIP.

Requires the courts to provide information relating to adult guardianships to the Hawaii criminal justice data center to disclose to the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Instant Criminal Background Check System database for gun control purposes.

 

PSM, JDL

SB 2149

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FORFEITURE.

Requires the department of the attorney general to establish a working group to review and discuss Hawaii's forfeiture laws and make recommendations to improve these laws.

 

PSM, JDL/WAM

SB 2484

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Raises the permit fee for aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic.

 

PSM, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair