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Votes at a glance: Economic-development, tourism and related bills advanced with SD1 amendments and deferred dates
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Summary
On Feb. 11, 2025 the Senate committees advanced a slate of bills affecting digital equity, condominiums, agribusiness, film, agriculture parcels and value-added products; most measures were passed with SD1 and a defective effective date of 07/01/2050 to allow further work.
Multiple bills were taken up and advanced by Senate committees on Feb. 11, 2025. Committees generally passed bills with SD1, made technical amendments and inserted a defective effective date (commonly 07/01/2050) to permit additional discussion and refinement. Below are the items recorded in the hearing and their committee outcomes.
- SB1061 (Digital equity): Amended to SD1, committee directed inclusion of Molokai and Lanai in section 2(c), incorporated lieutenant governor recommendations and inserted a defective effective date of 07/01/2050. Outcome: passed by committee (recorded yeas from chair, Senator Fukunaga and Senator Kim; chair's recommendation adopted).
- SB1601 (Condominiums/HGIA): Committee passed with amendments clarifying HGIA contracting with CDFIs for condominium loan program, loan eligibility, loan-loss-reserve intent and audits by independent CPAs; defective effective date inserted: 07/01/2050. Outcome: passed by committee (chair and committee members recorded aye votes).
- SB1657 (Agribusiness Development Corporation): Passed as SD1 with technical amendments and defective effective date 07/01/2050. Outcome: passed by committee.
- SB1539 (Agribusiness/Water systems/Waiahole): Passed as SD1; committee noted details regarding Waiahole Water System (feeds ~5,000 acres, serves 70+ farmers) and requested technical amendments and defective effective date 07/01/2050. Outcome: passed by committee.
- SB1641 (State of Hawaii Film Commission): Passed as SD1; bill creates a Hawaii State Film Office administratively attached to DBEDT and establishes a Hawaii State Film Commission with reporting requirements and a special fund; SD1 adopted. Outcome: passed by committee.
- SB522 (Hala'ula agricultural parcel): Passed with SD1 and defective effective date 07/01/2015 noted in committee action (committee adopted amendments). Outcome: passed by committee.
- SB558 (Value-added agricultural products): Passed as SD1 with defective effective date 07/01/2050; strong written and oral support from DBEDT, DOA, ADC and community innovation centers was recorded. Outcome: passed by committee.
For each of the above measures the committee recorded amendments to incorporate technical fixes, and committees asked DBEDT and relevant agencies to provide follow-up material in committee reports. Several committees inserted defective effective dates to allow further review before a final effective date is set.
Separate committee actions that day included the indefinite deferral of SB135 (macadamia labeling) and the passage of SB891 (gaming working group) and SB583 (naming rights) as SD1; those items are covered in separate write-ups.
