SB 992 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Summary

Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish state goals and implement projects to promote economic diversification through innovation and technology. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Small Business Innovation Research Program, Manufacturing Assistance Program, and Accelerator and Small Business Training Programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (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 10, 2025

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SB992 → SB992_SD1 · 5 edits

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The bill was converted from a standard Senate bill (SB 992) to a Senate Draft 1 (SD1) version, which includes metadata headers and formatting changes typical of legislative drafting software. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, though some text formatting and character encoding issues were present in the provided diff. The core purpose of promoting economic diversification through the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) is unchanged.

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Added metadata headers including document type (SB992 SD1), author information (Ainoa Naniole), timestamps, and template revision numbers that are not part of the legislative text itself.

Changed document header from 'S.B. NO. 2' to 'S.D. 1' to reflect the draft status of the bill.

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Committee

Feb 10, 2025

Committee

Reported from EDT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 125) 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 EDT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Fukunaga, Awa.

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EDT has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDT, WAM.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors