Called the Senate Clerk's Office this afternoon (02/16/2018) for clarification on the upcoming First Lateral deadline as this always confused me and it looks like SB 2265 will be DEAD for this legislative session as of tonight.

Yep, it'll be gone this weekend.

https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=29982.msg269724#msg269724

Of course also gone will be SB2066 (handgun magazine capacity limit to 17), SB2067 ("shall issue" CCW), and SB2068 (repeal stun gun ban).

I'm totally disgusted. (That's about the third time today!  )

I specifically asked Senator Gabbard to introduce all three bills, but most importantly, as the obvious "low hanging fruit", the repeal of the stun gun ban. SCOTUS already ruled, two years ago via a UNANIMOUS per curiam decision that a ban on stun guns is unconstitutional. Even New Jersey, without a lawsuit even being filed, repealed their ban based upon that decision regarding the law in Massachusetts. This shows just how much our legislators (the vast majority of them) don't take seriously (or even casually really) their oath of office to uphold the constitutions, as defined by the highest court in the land. They won't even give it a hearing in a committee!   

I'm totally disgusted. Did I already mention that?

I'm going to ask for a bill next session (only 11 months from now) that would provide for some other mechanism for a bill to be granted committee hearings via some other process than now: the single person who is chairman of the committee has sole discretion whether or not to hold a hearing. One person in the whole legislature/state has the power to allow something to move forward or die. I know, I know... that's how they've always done things in Hawaii (as with no initiative, no referendum, no recall, and no term limits... the only state that has none of those "accountability" options). i'm totally disg.... oh, never mind!