HB 674 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD.

Summary

Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

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 17, 2025 Last action Feb 12, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB674 → HB674_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a Word document markup to a clean legislative format. The substantive policy content remains unchanged, including pay provisions for National Guard members, TRICARE coverage eligibility, and effective dates.

Scope change

No substantive scope change; the bill's applicability to Hawaii National Guard personnel remains the same.

TECHNICAL

Removed document metadata, file paths, and formatting artifacts from the original markup to produce a clean legislative text.

Corrected formatting inconsistencies in section headers and statutory citations.

TIMELINE

Changed the effective date from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000' in Section 5.

Floor votes · House Feb 12, 2025

How they voted

48–0

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 51

Feb 12, 2025

D Democratic41

40 Yea 1

97% Yea

R Republican10

8 Yea 2

80% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 453) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (48-0-3)

house

Jan 31, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to PBS, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

13 primary · 0 co-sponsors