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Hawaii · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 935: RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 935 is a bill introduced in the Hawaii Senate on January 17, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Primary sponsor: Dru Kanuha (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (July 3, 2025): Act 290, 07/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1393).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Amends the retirement allowance for a member who first earns credited service as a judge after 6/30/2031 to 1.75 per cent of the judge's average final compensation for each year of credited service as a judge. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to study the impacts and benefits of reducing, from 10 years to 5 years, the minimum number of years of credited service that qualified Class H, Tier 2 members of the Employees' Retirement System must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. (CD1)

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dru KanuhaPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate3

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Act 290, 07/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1393).
  2. Act 290, on 07/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1393).
  3. Notice of Intent to veto dated 06/24/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307)
  4. Notice of intent to veto (Gov. Msg. No. 1307)
  5. Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 821).
  6. Enrolled to Governor.
  7. Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 888).
  8. Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Rhoads. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) DeCorte). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) McKelvey).
  9. Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 1 with Representative(s) Amato, Reyes Oda voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Belatti, Garcia, Hussey, Iwamoto, Matsumoto, Muraoka, Perruso, Pierick, Shimizu, Souza voting no (10) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1).
  10. The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Rhoads, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Hashimoto.
  11. The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Sayama, Tarnas, Lee, M.; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Reyes Oda; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
  12. Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 162).

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source