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Votes at a glance: Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection committee decisions, Feb. 19, 2025
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Summary
The committee took votes or made recommendations on multiple bills during its Feb. 19 decision-making session, including recommitting SB890, deferring SB573, advancing SB1038 with amendments, and adopting amendments or technical changes to several other measures.
The Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection conducted a decision-making session on Feb. 19 and reported recommendations on multiple measures. Below are the committee’s recorded actions and brief details for each bill heard.
Votes at a glance
- SB890 (short form; recommit to CPN for SD and hearing before decking deadline): Committee passed the SD and recommitted the bill back to CPN for a hearing; chair and vice chair recorded as voting aye; Senators Richards and Awa excused.
- SB573 (condominiums): Deferred after committee staff reported overwhelming opposition (3 support, 18 opposition, 4 offering comments); no final passage.
- SB1038 (privacy): Committee recommended passage with amendments; adopted OCP, Hawaii Bankers Association, and State Privacy and Security Coalition amendments and set a defective effective date of July 1, 2050.
- SB129 SD1 (labeling raw ahi): Committee passed with amendments, adding a severability clause and technical non-substantive changes; committee recorded aye votes and adopted measure.
- SB140 SD1 (invasive species/firewood): Committee passed with DLNR-proposed amendments and set a defective effective date of July 1, 2050 for continued discussion.
- SB144 SD1 (chiropractic): Passed with amendments (technical non-substantive changes).
- SB1197 SD1 (aircraft): Recommended to pass unamended.
- SB1341 (energy industry information reporting): Administration measure recommended to pass unamended.
- SB1411 SD1 (Medicaid third-party liability): Recommended to pass with a defective effective date of July 1, 2050.
- SB1438 (home care agencies): Recommended to pass with a defective effective date of July 1, 2050.
For each measure adopted or recommended, the committee chair and vice chair frequently recorded “aye”; in several instances the transcript notes that specific members (Senators Richards and Awa) were excused. The committee used defective effective dates for several bills to allow additional drafting and stakeholder work before an earlier implementation date is required.
Details and next steps for each bill will depend on the full text of the amendments adopted and subsequent floor action in the Senate.
