SCR 60 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

URGING THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO PRODUCE SUFFICIENT HOUSING TO MEET THE STATE'S DEMAND.

SCR 60 is a non-binding resolution urging the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to create a plan for increasing housing production. It directs HHFDC to develop a specific strategy addressing housing shortages, including density timelines, walkability, sustainable financing, staffing needs, and solutions for land/infrastructure barriers. The plan must include input from a proposed Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force (referencing Senate Bill 26) and be submitted to the Legislature by January 2026. This resolution directly affects HHFDC’s planning process but does not mandate new housing construction or funding.

Issues: ✓ Housing

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action May 2, 2025

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SCR60_HD1 → SCR60_SD1 · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) to a Senate Draft (SD) version with updated metadata and metadata fields. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, though some WHEREAS clauses were reorganized and one new clause was added criticizing the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for overbuilding in a narrow market segment.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; primarily a formatting and metadata update with minor text reorganization.

TECHNICAL

Document metadata was updated to reflect SD1 version with new timestamps, revision numbers, and template identifiers.

Title and header formatting changed from 'SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION' to 'SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION' with different layout structure.

Page numbers and line numbering were removed and replaced with metadata fields.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new WHEREAS clause criticizing the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for overbuilding in a narrow market segment of rental units financed with low-income housing tax credits.

Reorganized WHEREAS clauses and adjusted specific housing demand figures in the text.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

May 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced

Senate agrees with House Amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Adoption on 05-02-25.

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced

Reconsideration of action taken on 04-21-25; agree to House amendments.

upper

Apr 21, 2025

Amended

Senate disagrees with House amendments.

upper

Apr 21, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 775).

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Amato, Belatti, Cochran, Garrett, Ichiyama, Perruso, Quinlan excused (7).

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2128) as amended in HD 1, recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 16, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Pierick; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa, La Chica.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to HSG, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 455) in amended form (SD 1).

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from HOU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1453) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Mar 18, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Kanuha.

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HOU has scheduled a public hearing on 03-18-25 1:10PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Committee

Referred to HOU.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

11 primary · 1 co-sponsor