SB 788 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP SERVICES.

Summary

Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship and conservatorship related court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one or more of the resources and the court has deemed the resource or resources beneficial. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Governor and Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 12, 2025

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SB788 → SB788_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a structured SD1 template with metadata, while the substantive policy content remains largely the same. The most significant substantive change is the effective date, which was altered from July 1, 2025 to April 23, 2057 (likely a clerical error). Additionally, the appropriation amounts were removed from the text, leaving blank fields where specific dollar amounts should be stated.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains unchanged - it still establishes a two-year pilot program in the First Circuit courts to fund guardianship and conservatorship resources for respondents who cannot afford them. However, the scope of funding is now undefined due to removed appropriation amounts.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to April 23, 2057, which appears to be a significant clerical error that would delay implementation by over 30 years.

FISCAL

Specific appropriation amounts were removed from Sections 3 and 4, leaving blank fields where the legislature must now specify how much money to allocate for the pilot program.

TECHNICAL

The document was converted from a standard legislative format to an SD1 template with metadata headers and structured formatting, though the underlying policy text remains substantially the same.

Some punctuation and spacing were standardized throughout the document, including replacing multiple spaces with single spaces and adding proper Hawaiian diacritical marks.

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Committee

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 372) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Jan 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 01-31-25 9:15AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to JDC, WAM.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors