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HOUSE BILLS
| Measure | Title | Description | POSITION | Current Status | Introducer(s) | Committees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB125 | Firearms; Storage; Notice | 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. | OPPOSE | (H) 1/16/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | TARNAS, AMATO, BELATTI, EVSLIN, GRANDINETTI, IWAMOTO, KITAGAWA, LOWEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS, PERRUSO, SAYAMA, TAKAYAMA, TAM | JHA |
| HB136 | Firearms; Licensed Dealers; Trigger Lock; Notice; Secure Storage | 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. | OPPOSE | (H) 1/16/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | QUINLAN, EVSLIN, GARRETT, GRANDINETTI, KILA, KITAGAWA, KUSCH, LA CHICA, LAMOSAO, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS, TAKAYAMA, TAM | JHA, CPC |
| HB137 | Firearms; Ownership, Possession, or Control; Prohibition | Provides that felons in violation of the prohibition against owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition are subject to a mandatory prison term. | OPPOSE | (H) 1/16/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | QUINLAN, CHUN, EVSLIN, HOLT, KILA, KITAGAWA, KUSCH, LAMOSAO, LOWEN, MARTEN, MORIKAWA, OLDS, TAM | JHA |
| HB138 | Firearms; Secure Storage | 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. | OPPOSE | (H) 1/16/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | QUINLAN, EVSLIN, GARRETT, KILA, KITAGAWA, KUSCH, LA CHICA, LAMOSAO, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS, TAKAYAMA, TAM | JHA |
| HB150 | Firearms; Lending; Firearm Permit; Firearm Registration | Prohibits lending a firearm to a person without a permit or registered firearm. Requires a borrower to have a firearm permit or registered firearm and not be prohibited from firearm ownership. Sets limits for lending rifles or shotguns. Repeals certain lending authorizations. | OPPOSE | (H) 1/16/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | TARNAS, AMATO, EVSLIN, GARRETT, GRANDINETTI, IWAMOTO, LOWEN, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS, PERRUSO | JHA |
| HB279 | Firearms; Firearm Parts; Criminal Offenses; Penalties | 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. | OPPOSE | (H ) 1/21/2025 – Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1 | TARNAS, AMATO, BELATTI, EVSLIN, GRANDINETTI, IWAMOTO, KAHALOA, KILA, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, MIYAKE, OLDS, PERRUSO, SAYAMA, TAKAYAMA, TODD | JHA, FIN |
| HB392 | Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Package; Criminal Offenses; Firearms; Ghost Guns | 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. | OPPOSE | (H ) 1/21/2025 – Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1 | NAKAMURA (Introduced by request of another party) | JHA |
| HB483 | Crime; Smuggling; Drugs; Firearms; Weapons; Hawaii Covert Operations Against Smuggling and Transnational Threats; DLE | Establishes the Hawaii Covert Operations Against Smuggling and Transnational Threats program with the Department of Law Enforcement to combat smuggling of drugs and weapons and human trafficking. | OPPOSE | (H ) 1/21/2025 – Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 2 | MURAOKA, GARCIA, MATSUMOTO | JHA, FIN |
| HB664 | Office of Gun Violence Prevention; Gun Violence Prevention Special Fund; Gun Violence Resource Bank; Establishment; Grants; Appropriation | 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. | OPPOSE | (H ) 1/21/2025 – Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 2 | KILA, EVSLIN, GARRETT, GRANDINETTI, LAMOSAO, LOWEN, TAKAYAMA, TAKENOUCHI, TAM | JHA, FIN |
SENATE BILLS
| Measure | Title | Description | Keywords | Current Status | Introducer(s) | Committees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB128 | Criminal Trespass; Agricultural Land; Penalty; Firearm | Establishes the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land. Prohibits persons prosecuted or convicted of this crime from owning, possessing, or controlling firearms or ammunition. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | DECOITE, AQUINO, CHANG, DECORTE, KANUHA, WAKAI, San Buenaventura | AEN, JDC |
| SB174 | Ammunition; Purchase; Transfer; License to Sell | Requires licensing of ammunition sellers and identification and permitting for purchasers or possessors. Regulates ammunition similarly to firearms. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | RHOADS, CHANG, FUKUNAGA, LEE, C., MORIWAKI | PSM/CPN, JDC |
| SB285 | Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Package; Criminal Offenses; Firearms; Ghost Guns | Prohibits possession, transfer, and sale of ghost guns. Establishes mandatory minimum sentencing for their use in felonies. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | KOUCHI (Introduced by request of another party) | |
| SB308 | Firearms; Detachable Magazines | Expands the ban on firearms with detachable magazines over ten-round capacity. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | RHOADS, CHANG, KIDANI, MORIWAKI | |
| SB363 | Firearms; Firearm Parts; Criminal Offenses; Penalties | Limits carrying/possessing firearm parts to specific locations in enclosed containers. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Enhances penalties for violations. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | MORIWAKI, CHANG, ELEFANTE, RHOADS, WAKAI | |
| SB400 | Firearms; Lending; Firearm Permit; Firearm Registration | Prohibits lending firearms without proper permits or registrations. Sets conditions for borrowing and repeals certain authorizations. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | RHOADS, CHANG | |
| SB401 | Firearms; Gun Safety; High Caliber Guns | Prohibits firearms capable of firing ammunition .50 caliber or higher, with certain exceptions. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/15/2025 – Introduced and Passed First Reading. | RHOADS, CHANG, WAKAI | |
| SB433 | Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Bladed Weapon; Open Carry; Affirmative Defense | Prohibits open carry of deadly or dangerous weapons, including bladed weapons. Provides an affirmative defense for lawful self-defense and transport. | OPPOSE | (S) 1/16/2025 – Passed First Reading. | RHOADS, CHANG, ELEFANTE | |
| SB600 | Firearms; Assault Pistols; Assault Weapon Attachments; .50 Caliber Rifles; Magazine Capacity; Prohibition | 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. | OPPOSE | (S ) 1/17/2025 – Passed First Reading. | WAKAI, CHANG, LEE, C., MORIWAKI, RHOADS | |
| SB728 | Firearms Possession; Disqualification; Disposal; Statement; Seizure | 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. | OPPOSE | (S ) 1/21/2025 – Passed First Reading. | RHOADS | |
| SB774 | Office of Gun Violence Prevention; Gun Violence Prevention Special Fund; Gun Violence Resource Bank; Establishment; Grants; Appropriation | 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. | OPPOSE | (S ) 1/21/2025 – Passed First Reading. | RHOADS, CHANG | |
SB862 | Firearms; Storage; Notice | 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. | OPPOSE | (S ) 1/21/2025 – Passed First Reading. | RHOADS |