SCR 192 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM TO ESTABLISH A VETERINARY MEDICINE EXPANSION WORKING GROUP TO EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A DOCTOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE PROGRAM.

SCR 192 is a concurrent resolution requesting the University of Hawaii System to form a working group to study the feasibility of creating a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program in Hawaii. The working group must include university leaders, Windward Community College's veterinary program, agriculture officials, private veterinarians, and legislative members. It will examine key factors like facility needs, accreditation requirements, partnerships with mainland schools, workforce pipelines, and funding sources. The group must submit a report with recommendations to the legislature by late 2025. This resolution does not create a program but seeks to explore solutions to Hawaii's veterinarian shortage, particularly for rural and agricultural areas.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 17, 2025

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This bill was reformatted from a document with embedded metadata and page artifacts into a clean, standard legislative text. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, though the composition of the working group was slightly modified to include the President of the University of Hawaii as chairperson and added the Chancellor of UH at Hilo as a member, while removing the Dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience from the chair role. These changes clarify leadership structure and expand institutional representation.

Scope change

The scope of the working group composition was modified to include the President of the University of Hawaii as chairperson and the Chancellor of UH at Hilo as a member, while removing the Dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience from the chair position. The overall purpose and requirements of the feasibility study remain unchanged.

REQUIREMENT

Working group chairperson changed from the Dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience to the President of the University of Hawaii

Chancellor of University of Hawaii at Hilo added as a required working group member

Dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience removed from required working group members

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

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 17, 2025

Amended

Senate disagrees with House amendments.

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 753).

upper

Apr 16, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Todd excused (2).

lower

Apr 16, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2121), recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan.

lower

Apr 11, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on AGR as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia, Matayoshi excused (3).

lower

Apr 11, 2025

Committee

Reported from HED (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2047) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to AGR.

lower

Apr 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Amato, Evslin, Woodson, Souza.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to HED, AGR, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 442).

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted. Transmitted to House.

upper

Mar 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from HRE (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1373) with recommendation of adoption.

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HRE were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kim, Kidani, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Fukunaga, Fevella.

upper

Mar 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE has scheduled a public hearing on 03-20-25 3:01PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to HRE.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

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