HB 397 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO THE EXAMINATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS.

Summary

Establishes the amount of compensation for private-sector examiners who evaluate a criminal defendant's penal responsibility or fitness to proceed in a legal case. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Feb 10, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB397 → HB397_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill text was reformatted and corrected from a messy draft version to a clean legislative format, with one significant substantive change: the effective date was altered from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which appears to be an error or placeholder that would prevent the law from taking effect. The funding amount was also changed from a specific $975,000 appropriation to a blank amount, requiring further legislative action to specify the actual funding level.

Scope change

No substantive scope or applicability changes; the bill's purpose regarding private examiner compensation remains the same, though the effective date change would temporarily suspend implementation.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which would prevent the law from ever taking effect unless corrected.

FISCAL

The specific appropriation amount of $975,000 was removed and replaced with a blank amount, requiring new legislation to specify the funding level.

TECHNICAL

Removed metadata, file headers, and formatting artifacts from the original draft document.

Added proper legislative formatting, section numbering, and clean text structure to the bill.

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Committee

Feb 10, 2025

Committee

Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 288) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Jan 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Hashem.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to JHA, FIN, 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