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SB2503 • 2026

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

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Sponsor
KOUCHI (Introduced by request of another party)
Last action
2026-02-10
Official status
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.
Effective date
Not listed

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RELATING TO FIREARMS.

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

What This Bill Does

  • RELATING TO FIREARMS.
  • Hawaii State Association of Counties Package; Firearms; Buyback; Department of Law Enforcement; Appropriation ($) Appropriates moneys to support the State's gun buyback program, including at least two gun buyback events in each county.
  • Effective 7/1/2050.
  • (SD1)

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SD1

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Plain English: SB2503 SD1 THE SENATE S.B.

  • SB2503 SD1 THE SENATE S.B.
  • NO.
  • 2503 THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2026 S.D.
  • 1 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREARMS .

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-10 S

    Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

  2. 2026-02-10 S

    Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2132) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

  3. 2026-02-06 S

    The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Fukunaga, Lee, C., Hashimoto, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Inouye.

  4. 2026-01-30 S

    The committee(s) on PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 02-02-26 3:00PM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

  5. 2026-01-28 S

    Referred to PSM, WAM.

  6. 2026-01-23 S

    Passed First Reading.

  7. 2026-01-23 S

    Introduced.

Official Summary Text

RELATING TO FIREARMS.
Hawaii State Association of Counties Package; Firearms; Buyback; Department of Law Enforcement; Appropriation ($)
Appropriates moneys to support the State's gun buyback program, including at least two gun buyback events in each county. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

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SB2503

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2503

THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2026

STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating
to firearms
.

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

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SECTION
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The legislature finds that the
State's gun buyback program offers residents a safe way to dispose of unwanted
or unlawful firearms, including automatic firearms, semi-automatic rifles, and unregistered
"ghost guns".
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The program
offers participants up to $200 in Foodland Farms gift cards in exchange for
each firearm and allows the firearm owner to remain anonymous.
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The program's goal is to allow law
enforcement officers to properly dispose of the weapons and to reduce the
number of firearms in the State that could be used for criminal activities.
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In April 2025, a gun buyback event on the
island of Oahu collected an estimated three hundred

sixty-seven firearms of all types, in exchange for $37,900 in Foodland Farms gift
cards, distributed by the department of law enforcement.
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In August 2025, the Honolulu police
department, in partnership with the department of law enforcement, collected
eighty-three firearms, including five unregistered ghost guns and eleven
replica guns, and distributed seventy-nine gift cards valued at $100 each.
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The program also offers free gun locks to
help support the safe storage of guns in the home.
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The legislature believes that the gun buyback
program helps reduce firearms-related assaults and suicides, and gun-related accidents
involving children.

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Accordingly,
the purpose of this Act is to appropriate moneys to the department of law
enforcement for the State's gun buyback program, including at least two gun
buyback events in each county.

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SECTION 2.
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There is appropriated out of the general
revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $
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or so much thereof as may be necessary for
fiscal year 2026-2027 to support the State's gun buyback program, including at least
two gun buyback events in each county.

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The sum
appropriated shall be expended by the department of law enforcement for the
purposes of this Act.

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SECTION 3.
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This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2026.

INTRODUCED BY:

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By Request

Report Title:

Hawaii
State Association of Counties Package; Firearms; Buyback; Department of Law Enforcement;
Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates
moneys to support the State's gun buyback program,
including at least
two gun buyback events in each county.

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