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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS."
description: "Establishes a minimum age of twelve for adjudication for any alleged or attempted violation of law. (HD1)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 691"
citation: "Hawaii SB 691 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children", "Family Court", "Jurisdiction", "Juvenile Adjudication"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["CHANG", "GABBARD"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcfa6d00-cfb4-42af-82bc-6512337bc5b2"
source_url: "https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=691&year=2025"
source_hash: "e200d80b36982a95ffcd4d2ab8ab117e5a5d2e352ee2dfcb9f0a53183b012071"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB691_.HTM)
2. **SB691_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB691_HD1_.HTM)
3. **SB691_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB691_SD1_.HTM)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcfa6d00-cfb4-42af-82bc-6512337bc5b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).