SB 141 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Summary

Establishes the eighth day of August of each year as "Hawaii Disaster Drill Day". Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with all state departments and agencies, to conduct drills and perform other activities for that day. (SD1)

Tags: Emergency Management

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 10, 2025 Last action Feb 13, 2025

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SB141 → SB141_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a structured data template, with the effective date changed from immediate approval to July 1, 2025. The core policy content regarding Hawaii Disaster Drill Day remains substantively unchanged, though some formatting inconsistencies and metadata were added or removed during the conversion.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains the same, establishing August 8 as Hawaii Disaster Drill Day with requirements for state agencies to conduct drills and public education.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to a fixed date of July 1, 2025.

TECHNICAL

Metadata fields including file version numbers, timestamps, and template identifiers were added.

Original document formatting elements such as page headers, footers, and file path references were removed.

Text formatting was standardized from mixed line-break styles to consistent paragraph formatting.

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Committee

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

Reported from PSM/TCA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 416) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Feb 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Feb 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Feb 6, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on PSM/TCA has scheduled a public hearing on 02-10-25 3:15PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Committee

Referred to PSM/TCA, WAM.

upper

Jan 15, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and passed First Reading.

upper

Jan 10, 2025

Introduced

Pending Introduction.

upper

4 primary · 1 co-sponsor