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Panel backs raising DHHL loan guarantee cap from $100M to $500M; committee defers effective date

Committee on Hawaiian Affairs · February 18, 2026

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Summary

Senate Bill 3127, which would raise the State's liability limit for loans involving the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from $100 million to $500 million, passed the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs with amendments and a deferred effective date; no in-room testimony was recorded.

Senate Bill 3127, which would increase the State—ap on liability for monies borrowed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or loans guaranteed by the department from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000, passed the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs on the chair's recommendation.

The chair introduced the measure and noted DHHL was available to testify. No in-room witnesses spoke and an online participant was unavailable. The committee opened the bill for questions and heard none.

In decision-making, the chair recommended passage with amendments and to defer the bill—ffective date to Sept. 9, 2129 (transcript language recorded the instruction as "defect the date"); committee members recorded their support and the recommendation was adopted.

The committee did not record substantive debate on policy details during the public-testimony period. The bill now moves forward from committee with the adopted amendments and a deferred effective date as recorded in committee minutes.