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type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES."
description: "Part I: Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense within five years of excessive speeding to a misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum jail sentence of thirty days. Part II: Clarifying when a summons or citation is sent under an automated speed enforcement system. (CD2)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 97"
citation: "Hawaii SB 97 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Automated Speed Enforcement Systems", "Excessive Speeding", "Penalties", "Property Forfeiture", "Vehicle"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C.", "CHANG", "ELEFANTE", "GABBARD", "HASHIMOTO", "KIM", "LEE", "MORIWAKI"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 56
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e97ba1fe-ad00-46ef-bba7-9271a28dd8a8"
source_url: "https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=97&year=2025"
source_hash: "5e9749e6d79d607f221b1267f98a5bcaac09823a8cc406615d898e9e13899ce1"
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 97 (2025) — RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.
Part I: Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense within five years of excessive speeding to a misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum jail sentence of thirty days. Part II: Clarifying when a summons or citation is sent under an automated speed enforcement system. (CD2)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB97** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_.HTM)
2. **SB97_CD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_CD1_.HTM)
3. **SB97_CD1_HFA4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_CD1_HFA4_.HTM)
4. **SB97_CD1_SFA14** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_CD1_SFA14_.HTM)
5. **SB97_CD2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_CD2_.HTM)
6. **SB97_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_HD1_.HTM)
7. **SB97_HD2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_HD2_.HTM)
8. **SB97_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_SD1_.HTM)
9. **SB97_SD2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB97_SD2_.HTM)
## Votes
- The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. — **40** (pass) · lower
- The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **31** (pass) · upper
- Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 2). — **187** (pass) · upper
- The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **91** (pass) · lower
- Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). — **223** (pass) · upper
- The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **31** (pass) · upper
- The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **71** (pass) · lower
- The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **30** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- C. — primary (person)
- CHANG — primary (person)
- ELEFANTE — primary (person)
- GABBARD — primary (person)
- HASHIMOTO — primary (person)
- KIM — primary (person)
- LEE — primary (person)
- MORIWAKI — primary (person)
- Fukunaga — cosponsor (person)
- Wakai — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-03** Act 170, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). `became-law`
- **2025-06-03** Act 170, 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). `became-law`
- **2025-05-02** Enrolled to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02** Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 824). `receipt`
- **2025-05-02** Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 889). `receipt`
- **2025-05-02** Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 2 with Representative(s) Reyes Oda, Souza voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Belatti, Garcia, Muraoka voting no (4) and Representative(s) Cochran, Iwamoto excused (2). `passage`
- **2025-05-02** Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 2). Ayes, 18; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 7 (Senator(s) Awa, DeCoite, DeCorte, Fevella, Hashimoto, McKelvey, San Buenaventura). Excused, 0 (none). `passage`
- **2025-04-30** 48 Hrs. Notice 05-02-25
- **2025-04-30** Report filed.
- **2025-04-30** Separated Committee Report.
- **2025-04-30** Floor amendment adopted as amended (CD 2). `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-30** Floor Amendment No. 14 offered.
- **2025-04-30** Forty-eight (48) hours notice Friday, 05-02-25.
- **2025-04-30** Floor amendment adopted as amended CD 2 with none voting no and Representative(s) Cochran excused. `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-30** Floor Amendment No. 4 offered by Rep. Kila.
- **2025-04-24** Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
- **2025-04-24** Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 98) as amended in (CD 1).
- **2025-04-24** 48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 04-30-25.
- **2025-04-24** Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 98).
- **2025-04-24** The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Tarnas, Kitagawa, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
- **2025-04-24** 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) Lee, C., Chang, Elefante; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-25 10:30AM; Conference Room 329.
- **2025-04-22** Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-25 10:30AM; Conference Room 329.
- **2025-04-21** Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-22-25 10:30AM; Conference Room 329.
- **2025-04-21** Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 757). `receipt`
- **2025-04-17** House Conferees Appointed: Kila, Tarnas Co-Chairs; Kitagawa, Muraoka.
- **2025-04-15** Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 789). `receipt`
- **2025-04-15** Senate Conferees Appointed: Lee, C. Chairs; Chang Co-Chair; Elefante.
- **2025-04-08** Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 774). `receipt`
- **2025-04-08** Senate disagrees with House amendments. `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-08** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 568). `introduction, receipt`
- **2025-04-04** Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Iwamoto, Reyes Oda, Souza voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Pierick voting no (3) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Forty-eight (48) hours notice Friday, 04-04-25.
- **2025-04-02** Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1769) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
- **2025-03-28** 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; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Friday, 03-28-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-03-19** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JHA with Representative(s) Amato, Reyes Oda voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Pierick voting no (2) and Representative(s) Cochran, Ward excused (2). `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1376) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.
- **2025-03-11** The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Grandinetti; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** Bill scheduled to be heard by TRN on Tuesday, 03-11-25 9:00AM in House conference room 430 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-03-06** Referred to TRN, JHA, referral sheet 19 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Pass First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 80) in amended form (SD 2). `introduction, receipt`
- **2025-03-04** Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 22; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) McKelvey, Richards. Noes, 3 (Senator(s) Awa, DeCorte, Fevella). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2025-02-28** 48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25.
- **2025-02-28** Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1013) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
- **2025-02-26** The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) San Buenaventura; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-26-25 9:40AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
- **2025-02-11** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reported from TCA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 243) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
- **2025-02-06** The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Elefante, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) DeCorte; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Inouye. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** The committee(s) on TCA deferred the measure until 02-06-25 3:01PM; Conference Room 224. `deferral`
- **2025-01-31** The committee(s) on TCA has scheduled a public hearing on 02-04-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 224 & Videoconference.
- **2025-01-16** Referred to TCA, JDC. `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Introduced and passed First Reading. `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Pending Introduction.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e97ba1fe-ad00-46ef-bba7-9271a28dd8a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).