HB 685 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

Summary

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for the Agribusiness Development Corporation to purchase a land parcel in Kau on the county of Hawaii for agricultural development. 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 14, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB685 → HB685_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a legislative document to a Word document template, with the effective date changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, and the bond amount removed from the text. These appear to be formatting and clerical errors rather than substantive policy changes.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which is likely a clerical error.

FISCAL

The specific bond amount of $2,931,960 was removed from the text, though the authorization for bonds remains.

TECHNICAL

The document was reformatted from a plain text legislative file to a Word document template with metadata headers.

Floor votes · House Feb 14, 2025

How they voted

46–1

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 51

Feb 14, 2025

D Democratic41

39 Yea 2

95% Yea

R Republican10

7 Yea 1 Nay 2

70% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 634) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 14, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (46-1-4)

house

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to AGR, FIN, referral sheet 12

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors