SCR 119 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO CONVENE A KAILUA BAY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP.

This Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR 119) requests the Department of Land and Natural Resources to form a Kailua Bay Advisory Working Group. The group would bring together state, county, and community stakeholders to address ongoing challenges at Kailua Pier - including vandalism, homelessness, safety concerns, and environmental issues - while supporting the pier's cultural, economic, and recreational uses. The working group would meet monthly to coordinate solutions, recommend operational improvements, and ensure community input informs management decisions for the benefit of residents, businesses, and visitors.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status passed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 14, 2025

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SCR119 → SCR119_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a traditional legislative document to a digital template structure while preserving the core content. The substantive policy change is the addition of specific member composition requirements for the Kailua Bay Advisory Working Group, which now includes designated representatives from state agencies, local government, community organizations, and hotels, along with a mandate for quarterly reporting.

Scope change

The scope of the working group was expanded to include specific stakeholders and reporting requirements that were not detailed in the original version.

REQUIREMENT

Added specific member composition requirements for the Kailua Bay Advisory Working Group, including representatives from DLNR, state legislature, county council, mayor, homelessness office, tourism authority, police department, and community organizations.

Added a requirement for the working group to submit quarterly reports to the Legislature beginning in 2025 for three years.

Added a requirement to transmit certified copies of the resolution to specific officials and agencies.

TECHNICAL

Changed document format from traditional legislative markup to digital template structure with metadata fields.

Floor votes · House Apr 14, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.

Full legislative history

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Committee

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2088), recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Apr 14, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (50-0)

house

Apr 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Poepoe, Woodson.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to WAL, FIN, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 466) in amended form (SD 1).

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from WTL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1430) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Mar 28, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL has scheduled a public hearing on 03-28-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Committee

Referred to WTL.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors