Bill Commons

HI HB 657

died on adjournment

RELATING TO DISABLED VETERANS.

Hawaii · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did HI HB 657 pass?

No. HI HB 657 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2025-12-08): Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

What is HI HB 657 about?

Exempts disabled veterans from the State's vehicle weight tax and repeals the exemption for disabled veterans from the State's annual vehicle registration fee. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Who sponsors HI HB 657?

HASHEM, AMATO, GARCIA and 8 others are the primary sponsors of HI HB 657.

Description

Exempts disabled veterans from the State's vehicle weight tax and repeals the exemption for disabled veterans from the State's annual vehicle registration fee. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Introduced
2025-01-21
Latest action
2025-12-08 — Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • HASHEMprimary
  • AMATOprimary
  • GARCIAprimary
  • KAHALOAprimary
  • LAMOSAOprimary
  • LEEprimary
  • M.primary
  • MIYAKEprimary
  • MORIKAWAprimary
  • OLDSprimary
  • TODDprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-12-08

    Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

    carried-over

  2. 2025-02-12

    Reported from PBS/TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 459) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

  3. 2025-02-12

    Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Sayama, Ward excused (3).

    reading-2,referral-committee

  4. 2025-02-07

    The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Iwamoto; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson.

    committee-passage-favorable

  5. 2025-02-07

    The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

    committee-passage-favorable

  6. 2025-02-05

    Bill scheduled to be heard by PBS/TRN on Friday, 02-07-25 10:45AM in House conference room 411 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  7. 2025-01-27

    Re-referred to PBS/TRN, FIN, referral sheet 4

    referral-committee

  8. 2025-01-21

    Introduced and Pass First Reading.

    introduction,reading-1

  9. 2025-01-21

    Referred to PBS, TRN, FIN, referral sheet 2

    referral-committee

  10. 2025-01-17

    Pending introduction.

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS.

    2025-02-07 · pass · 8-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Kila: yes
    • Grandinetti: yes
    • Evslin: yes
    • Kitagawa: yes
    • La Chica: yes
    • Miyake: yes
    • Muraoka: yes
    • Pierick: yes
    • Cochran: not voting
  • The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS.

    2025-02-07 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (10)
    • Belatti: yes
    • Hashem: yes
    • Ichiyama: yes
    • Lamosao: yes
    • Morikawa: yes
    • Poepoe: yes
    • Shimizu: yes
    • Souza: yes
    • Iwamoto: yes
    • Woodson: not voting

Related bills

Official source

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:20:09.051962Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=HI&identifier=HB 657. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.