HB 372 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.

Summary

Prohibits state legislators from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the Legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session or any legislative recess day, holiday, or weekend. (HD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB372 → HB372_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

HB 372 was amended to narrow its scope from prohibiting all elected officials from soliciting campaign contributions during legislative sessions to only prohibiting state senators and state representatives. The bill's title and description were also updated to reflect this change from 'elected officials' to 'state legislators'.

Scope change

The bill's applicability was narrowed from all elected officials to only state legislators (state senators and state representatives).

SCOPE

Changed the prohibition on soliciting campaign contributions during legislative sessions to apply only to state senators and state representatives, rather than all elected officials as previously stated.

TITLE

Updated the bill title from 'RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS' to include specific reference to state legislators in the description.

DESCRIPTION

Revised the bill description to clarify that the prohibition applies specifically to state legislators rather than all elected officials.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to JDC, WAM.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 220).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Amato voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Kapela, Pierick, Ward excused (3). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors