Sen. Ron Kouchi

Maddy summarySB 2564 requires all written consents for adoptions to be notarized. This affects birth parents, adoptive parents, and legal professionals handling adoption paperwork. The bill adds a notary verification step to the current consent process, changing how adoption consents must be legally verified. It directly modifies the procedural requirements for adoption documentation without altering eligibility or rights.

Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii register of historic places or the national register of historic places.

Maddy summaryThis Senate Resolution (SR 3) requests the Hawaii Department of Education to make public school recreational facilities - including pools, gyms, and fields - available to the public during non-peak hours and non-school days. It aims to improve equitable access for residents, particularly in rural and low-income communities that face barriers to recreational spaces. The resolution builds on existing rules requiring advance notice for facility use but seeks to expand access beyond current requirements. As a non-binding request (not a law), it directs the DOE to consider this change but does not mandate it.

Maddy summaryThis resolution requests Hawaii's Department of Education to open public school recreational facilities (such as pools, gyms, and fields) to the public during non-peak hours and non-school days. It builds on existing rules requiring 10-day advance notice for public use, aiming to improve access for residents - particularly in low-income and rural communities - facing barriers to recreation. The resolution does not create new law but formally asks the Department to expand current access opportunities.

Authorizes the Hawaii Medical Board to issue an active retired clinician license to retired physicians, osteopathic physicians, and surgeons with inactive Hawaii medical licenses to provide volunteer clinical work through community-based health care or public health organizations.

Authorizes administrative drivers license revocation hearings to be conducted using interactive conference technology, including teleconference, videoconference, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) systems. Clarifies that evidence in hearings conducted via interactive conference technology may be submitted and exchanged electronically. (SD1)

Appropriates funds to the Department of Housing and Land Management and Department of Design and Construction of the City and County of Honolulu as grants-in-aid to comply with the requirements of Act 206, SLH 2017, and Act 210, SLH 2018. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Expands the authority of the family court in child protective proceedings to find that aggravated circumstances are present at any stage prior to the termination of parental rights, not only at the outset of the case or the return hearing. Specifies what acts of torture against a child constitute aggravated circumstances.

Establishes a Regular Session Review Working Group to determine the essential timing and effective framework for a lengthened legislative calendar for election and non-election years. Requires a report to the Legislature. Requires report finalization and drafting assistance from the Legislative Reference Bureau. Appropriates moneys.

Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score after a protest is resolved and the contract is executed.