Koho Pono 2025

Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi is proud to announce the return of our KOHO PONO Legislative Report Card for the 2025 Hawaiʻi State Legislative Session — an educational tool to empower our lāhui with the knowledge we need to choose correctly for the future of our ʻāina, wai, iwi kūpuna, and housing.

Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi has published more than a dozen Koho Pono report cards to track how lawmakers vote on measures that directly affect Kanaka Maoli communities and our national lands. As a grassroots initiative for self-determination and self-governance founded by Kanaka Maoli in 1987, we believe when our people are informed, our nation is stronger.

This year’s report card highlights three major bills that passed — and one that was defeated — each with significant consequences for our people and homeland:

• SB 739 – Land Exchanges of Hawaiʻi’s National Lands

• HB 505 – Red Hill WAI Bill

• HB 830 – Historic Preservation Reviews Outsourcing

• HB 606 – Funding for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

These measures touch on urgent and ongoing struggles — from protecting our aquifers and defending iwi kūpuna, to ensuring our national lands remain intact until Native Hawaiian nationhood and land claims are fully resolved.

As long as lawmakers continue to vote on issues that impact our survival on our lands, Kanaka Maoli must remain vigilant.

Koho Pono is about education — so our lāhui can make pono choices rooted in ea.