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Oʻahu · City Council · Bills and resolutions

Bill 76 (2025): RELATING TO GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY.

BILL076(25) · introduced by TOMMY WATERS, VAL OKIMOTO, Nov. 26, 2025

Summary, as the council's system prints it
Requires the BFS Director, no later than January 1, 2027, to develop, maintain, and make publicly available a searchable, online database of City revenues and expenditures that is free, open to the public, updated at least monthly, and accessible through an open checkbook-style, web-based system. Requires the database to include specified expenditure information and protect confidential information.
Last event, as printed
Feb. 5, 2026: Second reading notice published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
The measure in the council's system
BILL076(25)

Committee reports

Basis. Title, summary, introducers, dates, last event and vote are copied from the council's document system (hnldoc) as read by script; nothing is paraphrased. First on the record Sept. 19, 2026. Corrections: the corrections log.