republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2025/sb-691.md

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Bill	RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS.	Establishes a minimum age of twelve for adjudication for any alleged or attempted violation of law. (HD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2025	SB 691	Hawaii SB 691 (2025)	bill	Children Family Court Jurisdiction Juvenile Adjudication	enacted	CHANG GABBARD	3	31	4	2025-01-17	2025-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/bcfa6d00-cfb4-42af-82bc-6512337bc5b2	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=691&year=2025	e200d80b36982a95ffcd4d2ab8ab117e5a5d2e352ee2dfcb9f0a53183b012071	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 691 (2025) — RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS.

Establishes a minimum age of twelve for adjudication for any alleged or attempted violation of law. (HD1)

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. SB691 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB691_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB691_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsider: Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider: The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Final Reading. — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• CHANG — primary (person)
• GABBARD — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-05-27 Act 084, on 05/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1184). became-law
• 2025-05-27 Act 084, 05/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1184). became-law
• 2025-04-16 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-16 Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 806). receipt
• 2025-04-16 Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 2 (Senator(s) Fevella, Ihara). passage
• 2025-04-15 Received notice of reconsideration and Senate agreement (Sen. Com. No. 786). receipt
• 2025-04-15 One Day Notice 04-16-25
• 2025-04-15 Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 04-16-25.
• 2025-04-15 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-03-25 in disagreeing to the House amendments.
• 2025-04-03 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 481). receipt
• 2025-04-03 Senate disagrees with House amendments. amendment-failure
• 2025-04-03 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 438). introduction, receipt
• 2025-04-02 Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2025-03-31 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Hussey, Lowen, Ward excused (4).
• 2025-03-31 Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1724) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2025-03-14 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-12 Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Friday, 03-14-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-03-07 Re-referred to JHA, referral sheet 20 referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Referred to HSH, JHA, referral sheet 19 referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-04 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 184) in amended form (SD 1). introduction, receipt
• 2025-03-04 Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2025-02-28 48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25.
• 2025-02-28 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 880) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2025-02-07 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-01-31 The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 02-07-25 9:25AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
• 2025-01-31 Re-Referred to JDC. referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Referred to HHS, JDC. referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2025-01-17 Introduced. introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bcfa6d00-cfb4-42af-82bc-6512337bc5b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).