HB 394 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

Summary

Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Sub-Topics: Victims' Rights

Bill status in committee 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB394 → HB394_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a clean legislative document to a Word document template with metadata headers, while the core content remains substantially the same. The most significant substantive change is the effective date in Section 2, which was altered from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, likely an error during document conversion. The funding amount was also changed from a specific sum of $736,785 to a blank amount, requiring legislative action to specify the actual appropriation.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which appears to be a clerical error that would prevent the appropriation from taking effect as intended.

FISCAL

The specific appropriation amount of $736,785 was removed and replaced with a blank field, requiring the legislature to specify the exact funding amount before the bill can be enacted.

TECHNICAL

The document format changed from a clean legislative text file to a Word document template with metadata headers, dates, and formatting codes that are not part of the actual law.

Floor votes · House Feb 14, 2025

How they voted

47–0

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 51

Feb 14, 2025

D Democratic41

39 Yea 2

95% Yea

R Republican10

8 Yea 2

80% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 734) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 14, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (47-0-4)

house

Feb 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors