SCR 153 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE COUNTY OF MAUI TO FULFILL ITS AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE AND RESOLVE LONGSTANDING JURISDICTIONAL AMBIGUITIES BY COMPLETING THE TRANSFER OF THE HUI ROADS, INCLUDING HUI ROAD F, FROM THE JUDICIARY.

This resolution requests the County of Maui to complete the transfer of Hui Roads (including Hui Road F) from the Judiciary to the County, as agreed in a prior state-county agreement. It aims to resolve long-standing ownership confusion that has left these roads unmaintained and unsafe. The resolution encourages the County to allocate funds for immediate repairs and ongoing maintenance of the roads.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

Sub-Topics: Roads & Highways

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 14, 2025

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SCR153 → SCR153_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a traditional legislative document structure to a modern digital template format, with minor text corrections. The substantive policy content remains unchanged, including the request for Maui County to transfer Hui Roads from the Judiciary and the encouragement for maintenance funding.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the resolution's purpose and requirements remain identical.

TECHNICAL

Changed document header from 'SCR153' to 'SCR153_HD1' and restructured formatting to match a digital template system.

Corrected a grammatical error in the seventh WHEREAS clause from 'despite of the Judiciary's efforts' to 'despite the Judiciary's efforts'.

Updated the final resolution clause to specify 'Director of Public Works' instead of 'Director of Transportation' for the County of Maui.

Added metadata fields including timestamps, version numbers, and language settings that were not present in the original document.

Floor votes · House Apr 11, 2025

How they voted

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

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 14, 2025

Amended

Senate disagrees with House amendments.

upper

Apr 14, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 712).

upper

Apr 11, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia, Matayoshi excused (3).

lower

Apr 11, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2060) as amended in HD 1, recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to TRN, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 469).

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted. Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1426) with recommendation of adoption.

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard.

upper

Mar 14, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-20-25 10:00AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Committee

Re-Referred to JDC.

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to EIG, JDC.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors