HB 1425 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Summary

Establishes a temporary working group to study the feasibility of transitioning the Hawaii State Legislature's Regular Session from one that meets for three and a half months from mid-January to early May, to one that meets on a year-round basis. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to provide administrative support to the working group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Dec 8, 2025

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HB1425 → HB1425_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was updated from its original version to reflect House Draft 1 changes, primarily correcting formatting errors, fixing a typo in the referenced resolution number, and adjusting the effective date to a distant future placeholder (July 1, 3000) likely for administrative tracking purposes.

Scope change

The substantive scope of the bill remains unchanged; it still establishes a temporary working group to study transitioning Hawaii's legislature to a year-round session.

TECHNICAL

Fixed a typo in Section 2(d) where the referenced resolution was changed from 'Senate Draft 1' to 'S.D. 1'.

Minor formatting adjustments were made to section headers and the removal of extraneous metadata lines.

TIMELINE

The effective date in Section 4 was changed from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 3000, indicating a placeholder or administrative update rather than an immediate policy shift.

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Committee

Feb 10, 2025

Committee

Reported from LMG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 279) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on LMG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Holt, Quinlan, Ichiyama, Morikawa, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to LMG, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors