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SCR 196 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING A BROADER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY.

This is a symbolic Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR 196), not a binding bill. It expresses Hawaii's legislative support for developing deeper collaboration with Norway across shared priorities like marine conservation, renewable energy, sustainable tourism, and criminal justice. The resolution does not create new policies, funding, or obligations - it simply urges future partnerships. It directly affects Hawaii's state government by encouraging officials to explore these collaborations, but it has no legal force or impact on residents or businesses.
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 16, 2025
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SCR196 → SCR196_SD1 · 3 edits
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The bill was reformatted from a clean legislative text to a machine-readable document with metadata headers. The substantive policy content remains the same, though one new 'WHEREAS' clause was added in the reformatted version regarding Norway's approach to prisons and criminal justice as a potential collaboration topic.
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Added metadata headers including document identifiers, timestamps, and formatting codes that are not part of the legislative text itself

Changed document title format from 'SCR 196' to 'SCR196 SD1' with additional versioning information

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Added a new clause suggesting collaboration on Norway's prison and criminal justice systems as a potential area of discussion

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Actions timeline

Total actions
16
Key actions
8
Committee
7
Apr 16, 2025
Upper · Passed
Resolution adopted in final form.
upper
Apr 16, 2025
Introduced
Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 746).
upper
Apr 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Shimizu voting no (2) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1).
lower
Apr 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from ECD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2109), recommending adoption.
lower
Apr 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Tam, Templo, Todd; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Matsumoto.
lower
Apr 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to ECD, referral sheet 28
lower
Apr 3, 2025
Introduced
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 531) in amended form (SD 1).
lower
Apr 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
Report and Resolution Adopted as amended (SD1). Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa). Transmitted to House.
upper
Apr 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from TCA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1620) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).
upper
Apr 1, 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
Mar 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
The committee(s) on TCA has scheduled a public hearing on 04-01-25 3:01PM; Conference Room 224 & Videoconference.
upper
Mar 12, 2025
Committee
Referred to TCA.
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Introduced
Offered.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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