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Votes at a glance: committee actions on multiple economic and culture measures (Feb. 13, 2025)
Summary
Multiple bills on the Feb. 13 joint agendas were advanced with committee amendments and technical fixes. This roundup lists each measure heard with the committee’s disposition and key details.
Below are the committee decisions recorded during the Feb. 13 joint hearings for items that received brief testimony or primarily procedural action.
- SB 817 (out-of-state offices; DBEDT): Passed with amendments (SD1); committee adopted technical amendments and set effective date to 07/01/2025. Recorded committee voting included Chair yes, Senator Fukuda yes, Senator Kim recorded reservations; TCA committee mirrored recommendation.
- SB 1578 (international affairs): Passed with amendments to address Attorney General comments (remove specified references), to make the commission subject to senate confirmation, and to make technical fixes; committee recommended referral to Ways and Means with amendments.
- SB 1639 (Hawai‘i Beach Day): Passed with amendments (technical effective-date insertion) in both committees.
- SB 582 (DBEDT): Passed with amendments to transfer SFCA positions and programming to general funds and restrict Works of Art Special Fund to art acquisition and capital-related costs; committee adopted SD1 and technical fixes.
Committee context: Each of these measures was presented with agency testimony and limited public comment; committees adopted recommended amendments and moved the bills to subsequent stages (Ways and Means or similar) as noted during the hearing.
Ending: These items were advanced on the record with committee amendments; fuller reports will appear in the committees’ printed reports and in subsequent referral committees for fiscal and legal review.
