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HB393 • 2026

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

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The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor
NAKAMURA (Introduced by request of another party)
Last action
2025-12-08
Official status
Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's effective date is July 1, 2025, not a future year as mentioned in the summary text.

Funding for Career Criminal Prosecution

This bill provides funding to the Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney's office for a unit that deals with career criminals.

What This Bill Does

  • Appropriates $747,267 from state funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for fiscal year 2025-2026.
  • The money is used to support a special unit focused on prosecuting career criminals.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu receives the funding.
  • Career criminals in Honolulu may face prosecution efforts from this new unit.

Terms To Know

career criminal
A person who repeatedly commits crimes over a long period of time.
appropriation
Money set aside by the government for specific purposes, like funding a new program or project.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how many career criminals will be prosecuted.
  • It is unclear what additional resources beyond funding are needed to support this unit effectively.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

HD1

1

Hawaii published version HD1

Plain English: This amendment allocates money from the state's general funds to support a special unit in Honolulu that deals with prosecuting career criminals.

  • Allocates funding from the State of Hawaii’s general revenues for fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for a specific unit focused on career criminal prosecution.
  • The amendment specifies an effective date of July 1, 3000, which seems unusual and may be a placeholder or error.
  • It is unclear how much money will actually be allocated as the exact amount is not specified in the text provided.

Bill History

  1. 2025-12-08 D

    Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

  2. 2025-02-14 H

    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, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

  3. 2025-02-14 H

    Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 730) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

  4. 2025-02-07 H

    The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran.

  5. 2025-02-04 H

    Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Friday, 02-07-25 2:05PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  6. 2025-01-21 H

    Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1

  7. 2025-01-17 H

    Introduced and Pass First Reading.

  8. 2025-01-16 H

    Pending introduction.

Official Summary Text

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Package; Career Criminal Prosecution Unit; Appropriation ($)
Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Current Bill Text

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HB393

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

393

THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025

STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

making
an appropriation FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

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SECTION 1.
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There is
appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of
$747,267 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2025-2026 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.

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The sum appropriated shall be expended by
the department of the prosecuting attorney of the city and county of Honolulu
for the purposes of this Act.

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SECTION 2.
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This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2025.

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________

By Request

Report Title:

Honolulu
Prosecuting Attorney Package; Career Criminal Prosecution Unit; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates
moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of
Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit.

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