SB 598 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS.

Summary

Establishes the Hawaii Hope Card Program within the Department of the Attorney General to issue hope cards upon request to those holding a long-term protective order, with specified relevant information about the protective orders and all covered parties. Establishes the Hawaii Hope Card Special Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 4, 2025

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SB598 → SB598_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a draft version (SB598) to a Senate committee markup version (SB598_SD1). The substantive policy content, including the Hawaii Hope Card Program provisions, funding, and effective dates, remains identical between the two versions. The changes are primarily formatting and metadata updates rather than policy modifications.

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Removed draft document headers, page numbers, and metadata artifacts from the original version.

Added committee markup identifiers and metadata fields (e.g., bill number, sponsor, timestamps) to the new version.

Standardized text formatting and removed placeholder symbols used in the draft version.

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Committee

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 11) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Jan 30, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-25 9:15AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to JDC, WAM.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

3 primary · 1 co-sponsor