The Hawaii Senate’s joint committee hearings on April 11, 2025, advanced a set of House Concurrent Resolutions addressing building codes, hurricane refuges, homelessness coordination, kupuna emergency outreach, an emergency egress route at Kolekole Pass, a study of highway patrol and speed‑camera deployment, vegetation management for wildfire mitigation, corrections facility planning, and related measures. Committee chairs recommended passage on all measures; votes recorded during the sessions adopted those recommendations.

Why it matters: The measures direct state and county agencies to study or coordinate on public‑safety, housing and transportation topics that affect emergency planning and infrastructure across the islands. Several items ask multiple agencies to collaborate and would lead to follow‑up regulatory work, working groups, or planning studies rather than immediate new spending or regulatory changes.

Votes at a glance (committee action / outcome):
- HCR 67 (HD1): Requests a statewide strategy for adopting updated building codes — Passed (committee recommendation adopted).
- HCR 164 (HD1): Urges counties to create and publish an electronic list of hurricane refuges and shelters — Passed (committee recommendation adopted).
- HCR 180 (HD1): Requests statewide collaborators (homelessness office, county coordinators, law enforcement, social services) to coordinate on homelessness — Passed (committee recommendation adopted).
- HCR 37 (HD1): Requests Hawaii Emergency Management Agency outreach to kupuna on emergency programs — Passed (committee recommendation adopted by both committees).
- HCR 121 (HD1): Asks DoD, U.S. Army, Navy and state DOT to coordinate use of Kolekole Pass as an expanded emergency egress route — Passed with technical amendments (committee recommendation adopted).
- HCR 43 (HD1): Requests a study by Department of Law Enforcement and DOT on a highway patrol and speed cameras on H‑1 and other corridors — Passed (committee recommendation adopted; at least one recorded no vote noted).
- HCR 69 (HD1): Requests the State Fire Marshal convene a vegetation management working group to study vegetation obligations and line‑clearance training — Passed with amendments (DLNR and DOE added; certain telecom and utility comments accepted).
- HCR 133: Strongly supports construction of a floating dry dock at Pearl Harbor — Passed (committee recommendation adopted).
- HCR 153: Requests Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to incrementally reduce inmates in private, out‑of‑state correctional facilities — Passed (committee recommendation adopted).
- HCR 23 (HD1): Requests planning for the new Oahu Community Correctional Center in Halawa to include courthouse facilities and an off‑site release procedure — Passed (committee recommendation adopted).

What the votes mean: Most of the measures are requests or study directives that send policy questions back to state agencies, working groups or interagency coordination rather than immediately enacting law. Where committees accepted amendments (for example, adding the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Board of Education to a vegetation management working group transmittal list), the committees explicitly incorporated those changes before passage.

Next steps: Each passed concurrent resolution directs agencies to report back, convene working groups, or coordinate with partner agencies as specified in the measure text. Any regulatory changes, new rulemaking or appropriations would require later actions by the legislature or implementing agencies.

Ending: The joint committee sessions adjourned after the votes and will reconvene as needed; some measures specified follow‑up or reporting to the committees.