SB 986 Hawaii Senate · 2026 Regular Session

RELATED TO TOURISM.

Summary

Amends the types of occurrences for which the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors may request the Governor to declare a tourism emergency. Reduces the minimum balance to be maintained in the Tourism Emergency Special Fund through an allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Feb 2025

House Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Dec 8, 2025

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What changed between versions

SB986 → SB986_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative text to a structured digital template, while retaining the core policy of allowing the Governor to declare tourism emergencies for various crises. The most significant substantive change is the effective date, which was moved from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2050, likely indicating a placeholder or error in this specific draft version.

Scope change

The bill's scope regarding tourism emergency declarations and fund allocations remains unchanged, but the applicability timeline has been drastically extended to the year 2050.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the act was changed from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2050.

TECHNICAL

The document structure was converted from a traditional printed bill format to a digital template format with metadata headers.

Minor formatting adjustments were made to bracketed text indicating deleted or optional language.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Reported from EDT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 391) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Feb 6, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EDT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDT were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Fukunaga, Kim, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EDT has scheduled a public hearing on 02-06-25 1:15PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDT, WAM.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

2 primary · 1 co-sponsor