HB 1185 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Summary

Establishes a Plant-based Building Materials Working Group to study and report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2026

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 22, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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What changed between versions

HB1185_HD1 → HB1185_HD2 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from HD 1 to HD 2 and underwent minor formatting cleanup, including the removal of extraneous metadata and the correction of a typo in the university name ('reslience' to 'resilience'). The substantive policy content, including the establishment of the working group, member qualifications, and funding provisions, remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

The bill number changed from H.D. 1 to H.D. 2, indicating a revision in the legislative process.

A typo in Section 2(a) was corrected, changing 'college of tropical agriculture and human reslience' to 'college of tropical agriculture and human resilience'.

Extraneous file metadata and formatting artifacts present in the previous version were removed to clean up the text.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 2, 2026

Committee

Re-Referred to EDU, WAM.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to HRE, WAM.

upper

Feb 28, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 71).

upper

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa, Ward excused (3).

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

Reported from HED (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 610) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Evslin, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Woodson, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Sayama.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 233) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to HED.

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward.

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to AGR, HED, FIN, referral sheet 7

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.