SCR 121 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO CONVENE A TOURISM AND GAMING WORKING GROUP.

This Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR 121) requests Hawaii's Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to form a Tourism and Gaming Working Group. The group will review past gaming legislation, develop a policy framework for potential economic growth and tax revenue, examine gaming at the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District, and assess how gaming could support tourism efforts. The working group must submit findings and recommendations to the Legislature by 2027, with the group dissolving on June 30, 2028. The resolution does not legalize gaming but seeks stakeholder input to inform future legislative decisions.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status passed both 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 29, 2025

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SCR121_HD1 → SCR121_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill was converted from a formal Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) into a template-based format (SD1), removing detailed formatting metadata while preserving the core legislative content. The substantive policy changes include streamlining the working group membership requirements and adding specific gaming corporations as required members.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on convening a Tourism and Gaming Working Group, but the composition requirements were modified to include specific gaming corporations.

REQUIREMENT

Working group membership requirements were simplified from 17 specific categories to 15 categories, removing detailed administrative roles like the Director of Human Services and University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization.

Specific gaming corporations (Boyd Gaming Corporation, DraftKings Inc., and BetMGM) were added as required members of the working group, replacing the generic 'gaming corporations' category.

The working group's dissolution date was maintained at June 30, 2028, but the report submission deadline remains unchanged at twenty days prior to the 2027 Regular Session.

TECHNICAL

The resolution text was reformatted from traditional legislative formatting to a template-based structure with metadata fields.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form. 18 Aye(s); Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Gabbard, Kim . 6 No(es): Senator(s) Awa, DeCorte, Fevella, Ihara, Inouye, Moriwaki. 1 Excused: Senator(s) Chang.

upper

Apr 24, 2025

Introduced

Senate agrees with House Amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Adoption on 04-25-25.

upper

Apr 24, 2025

Introduced

Reconsideration of action taken on 04-22-25; agree to House amendments.

upper

Apr 22, 2025

Amended

Senate disagrees with House amendments.

upper

Apr 22, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 793).

upper

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted as amended in HD 1 with Representative(s) Belatti, Chun, Kila, Matayoshi voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Garrett, Grandinetti, Hussey, Iwamoto, Marten, Matsumoto, Muraoka, Perruso, Pierick, Reyes Oda, Shimizu, Templo voting no (14) and Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica, Woodson excused (3).

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from ECD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2146) as amended in HD 1, recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Todd; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Templo; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Matsumoto.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to ECD, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 506) in amended form (SD 1).

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted as amended (SD1). Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Ihara). Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from EDT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1559) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Mar 25, 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, Fukunaga; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Kim, Awa.

upper

Mar 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EDT has scheduled a public hearing on 03-25-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDT.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors