Bills

SB 286: MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: Senate
Latest Version Date: 2025-02-07

Current Status:

Failed

(2025-12-08: Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.)

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Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)

Date	Status
Dec 8, 2025	Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
Feb 10, 2025	Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.
Feb 10, 2025	Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 193) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
Jan 30, 2025	The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
Jan 27, 2025	The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-25 9:15AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
Jan 21, 2025	Referred to JDC, WAM.
Jan 15, 2025	Introduced and passed First Reading.
Jan 14, 2025	Pending Introduction.

Date	Description	Location	Votes
Jan 30, 2025	The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS	Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary	4 0 1 Passed

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Organization	Position	Date
Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu	** Support
Retail Merchants of Hawaii	** Support

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 193

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 286

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 286 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, one member of the Kauaʻi County Council, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit was created in 1979 to address the disproportionate amount of serious crimes committed by a relatively small number of multiple and repeat felony offenders, commonly known as "career criminals". The program originally provided full funding for county career criminal units. In recent years, however, the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit of the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu had to be scaled back due to insufficient funding. Your Committee believes that money spent on the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit is an efficient use of resources to combat career criminals. This measure will provide swift and effective justice to address Oahu's career criminals, reduce heavy caseloads on the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and prevent long court delays.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount;

(2) Inserting an effective date of April 23, 2057, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

Your Committee notes that this measure, as amended, contains an unspecified appropriation amount. Should your Committee on Ways and Means choose to deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider inserting an appropriation amount of $747,267 for a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 286, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 286, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

________________________________

KARL RHOADS, Chair

Date	Testimony PDF
Jan 29, 2025	SB286_TESTIMONY_JDC_01-30-25_.PDF

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SB286_SD1 (2/7/2025)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	286
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	286
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025
STATE OF HAWAII

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	By Request