Senate

Printable list: Senate Committee Assignments

Printable list: Senate Committee Hearing Schedule

• AHW: Committee on Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to agriculture and aquaculture, including mariculture; burial councils; and Hawaiian affairs, including the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, sovereignty, and Hawaiian home lands.
• CPH: Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Affordable Housing - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to business regulation, professional and vocational licensing, consumer protection, financial institutions, insurance regulation; public utility regulation; and telecommunications regulation; sustainability; housing development including affordable housing, the landlord tenant code, condominium property regimes, and leaseholds.
• EDT: Committee on Economic Development and Taxation - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to economic development, and other emerging industries development; financial and technical assistance to business; film an digital media production; astronomy, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology and other scientific research and development activities; culture and arts; historic preservation; use of information storage, transmissions, processing and telecommunications; recreation including commercial ocean recreation activities, sports and athletics, Aloha Stadium; and taxation.
• EDU: Committee on Education - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to early education, public schools, continuing education, the public libraries, the University of Hawaii, community college system, private higher education bond financing, and other education matters relevant to higher education.
• ENE: Committee on Energy and Environment - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to energy resources including the development of alternative energy resources; population; and environmental quality control and protection, including litter control, recycling, wastewater treatment, endangered species, and hazardous waste.
• HSP: Committee on Human Services and Public Housing - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to public assistance, Medquest, youth services, early childhood education and care programs under the Department of Human Services, and vocational rehabilitation; long term care; programs relating to the promotion of the general well-being of Hawaii's youth, families, and elderly population; homeless and public housing.
• HTH: Committee on Health - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to general health, maternal and child health, communicable diseases, dental health, medical and hospital services, mental health, developmental disabilities, and hospitals.
• IGM: Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to county and federal relations, matters of concern to the counties; civil defense, disaster readiness, and military and veterans' affairs.
• JDL: Committee on Judiciary and Labor - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to the courts; crime prevention and control, including juvenile justice matters; criminal code revision; statutory revision; campaign spending and elections; ethics; constitutional matters; the Attorney General, Public Defender and Judiciary; government records and information practices; individual rights and civil liberties; public officers and employees, labor, employment opportunities and training, labor-management relations, collective bargaining; the public employees retirement system and the Hawaii public employees health fund.
• PBS: Committee on Public Safety - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to public safety, corrections, the narcotics division, and the sheriffs division.
• TIA: Committee on Transportation and International Affairs - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to air, water, and surface transportation; and international affairs, international relations, foreign policy issues, and foreign relations.
• TSG: Committee on Tourism and Government Operations - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to tourism, including the Hawaii Convention Center, Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, and the Hawaii Tourism Authority; state facilites not specifically identified herein; and state government operations policy, including procurement and government efficiency.
• WAM: Committee on Ways and Means - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to overall state financing policies, including revenue enhancement, other revenues, cash and debt management, and statewide implementation of planning, programming, budgeting and evaluation; and goverment structure and finance.
• WTL: Committee on Water and Land - The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to state planning, urban renewal, community development, and land and water use; coastal zone management, land reclamation, naturally occurring fisheries, and ocean resources; state parks and beaches, management areas including ocean recreation management areas; and small boat harbors.
• Sub-Committee on Legislative Management
• Sub-Committee on Capital Improvement Projects