HCR 62 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THAT THE SHERIFF DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT FLY THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF FAMILIES OF AMERICAN PRISONERS AND MISSING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA'S FLAG YEAR-ROUND AT THE STATE CAPITOL.

HCR 62 is a symbolic resolution requesting that Hawaii's Sheriff Division fly the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia's flag year-round at the State Capitol. This would change the current practice (where the flag is flown only on specific holidays per federal law) to maintain constant visibility. The resolution directly affects the Sheriff Division of the Department of Law Enforcement and the State Capitol's flag policy. It aims to honor the flag's recognition under U.S. Public Law 101-355, which designates it as a symbol for resolving the fates of U.S. military personnel missing in Southeast Asia.

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Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

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Mar 2025

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Governor

Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Last action Apr 1, 2025

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HCR62 → HCR62_HD1 · 3 edits

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The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a Word template structure with metadata headers. The substantive policy change is that the flag display requirement was modified from 'year-round' to 'on the same six national holidays as Congress set forth in U.S. Public Law 105-85', significantly reducing the duration the flag must be flown at the State Capitol.

Scope change

The resolution's applicability was narrowed from year-round display to specific national holidays only

REQUIREMENT

Changed the flag display requirement from year-round to only during six specific national holidays defined in federal law

TECHNICAL

Reformatted document structure from plain text to Word template with metadata headers and page numbers

Added metadata fields including document revision numbers, timestamps, and template identifiers

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Committee

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Hashem, Hussey, Templo, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1596) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to JHA.

lower

Mar 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Ichiyama, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Morikawa, Woodson.

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to PBS, JHA, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

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