Title: COS Action Hawai'i History
Original CoS Document (slug): coshi-history
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Created: 2022-12-09 04:57:46
Updated: 2025-03-09 07:10:04
Published: 2022-12-15 05:00:00
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Convention of States Hawai’i History
Convention of States Hawai'i' became an official State organization of Convention of States in October 2015 with the onboarding of State Director Mark White.
We boast a grassroots network of over eight thousand petition signers and volunteers, representing all 51 state legislative districts.
We submitted the Convention of States resolution in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024. Our first committee hearing was in 2018.
On March 20, 2024, we not only had our second committee hearing, we made COS history with our resolutions passing out of the committee.
2025 marked the 10th consecutive year we've been filed in both chambers of the legislature.
Over the ten years we’ve been submitting our resolution, we’ve garnered support from both parties of our legislature:
| Year | House | Senate |
| 2025 | CHUN, ALCOS, GARCIA, KEOHOKAPU-LEE LOY, KILA, KONG, MATSUMOTO, PIERICK, REYES ODA, SHIMIZU, WARD, Sayama | DELA CRUZ, AQUINO, AWA, DECORTE, FEVELLA, WAKAI, Elefante |
| 2024 | CHUN, GARCIA, KILA, KONG, LA CHICA, MATSUMOTO, PIERICK, WARD, Takenouchi | DELA CRUZ, GABBARD, KIDANI, MORIWAKI, WAKAI |
| 2023 | CHUN, ALCOS, GARCIA, KONG, PIERICK, Amato | WAKAI, Awa, Dela Cruz |
| 2022 | KONG, MCDERMOTT, WARD | WAKAI, GABBARD, RIVIERE |
| 2021 | KONG, MATSUMOTO, MCDERMOTT, OKIMOTO, TOKIOKA, YAMANE, Sayama, Ward | GABBARD, RIVIERE, WAKAI, Fevella, Inouye |
| 2020 | KONG, CABANILLA ARAKAWA, CACHOLA, DECOITE, OKIMOTO, SAY, YAMANE, Aquino, Brower, McDermott, Mizuno | GABBARD, HARIMOTO, Inouye, Riviere |
| 2019 | KONG, CACHOLA, MATSUMOTO, MCDERMOTT, MIZUNO, SAY, TOKIOKA, WARD, YAMANE, Cabanilla Arakawa, Okimoto | GABBARD, DELA CRUZ, HARIMOTO, Fevella, Riviere, Wakai |
| 2018 | KONG, BROWER, CACHOLA, EVANS, SAY, TUPOLA, YAMANE, Creagan, Hashem, Ito, Mizuno, Tokioka, Ward | GABBARD, ESPERO, HARIMOTO, INOUYE, NISHIHARA, RIVIERE, Shimabukuro, Wakai |
| 2017 | KONG, BROWER, CACHOLA, CREAGAN, DECOITE, EVANS, MATSUMOTO, MCDERMOTT, MIZUNO, SAY, TOKIOKA, WARD, YAMANE, Cabanilla Arakawa, Okimoto | GABBARD, HARIMOTO, Espero, Inouye, Riviere, Wakai |
| 2016 | MCDERMOTT, KONG | SLOM, Espero, Gabbard, Harimoto, Inouye, Kidani, Nishihara, Shimabukuro |
All Caps = INTRODUCER Bold = Democrat
COSHI has hosted several National leaders: Former U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn, President & Co-founder Mark Meckler twice, and COS Attorney Robert Kelly.
Over the last seven years COSHI has conducted numerous petition signings at various events, the Great Guns Gun Show a twice a year event, local craft fairs, Libertarian Party meeting, Republican Party conventions, and many more.
Most Notables
| 2023 | Rep. Elijah Pierick and Constitutional Attorney Jim Hochberg traveled to historic Williamsburg, VA as Hawaii Commissioners to the 2023 COS Simulation sponsored by COS Foundation. SD Mark White and SGC Brett Kulbis traveled to Sacrament, CA to attend the COS Western Region State Leaders summit. |
| 2022 | Nine members (SD Mark White, SGC Brett Kulbis, EC Sheryl Bieler, RSGC Tamara McKay, DC Paul Macri, DC Alberta Lono, DC Jim Ray, DC Julie Yamato, DC Robert Fitzgibbons, and DC Team Jolanda Kahele), made the journey to Orlando in the Free State of Florida to discuss all things Convention of States at the second Leadership Summit. |
| 2020 | COSHI resolution and support officially became a plank of the Hawai'i Republican Party platform. |
| 2019 | Five members (SD Mark White, SCG Brett Kulbis, DC Emil Svrcina, DC Francie Whittfield and DC Jake Wilson), made the journey to historic Colonial Williamsburg to discuss all things Convention of States at the first Leadership Summit. |
| 2018 | State leaders (SD Mark White and SGC Brett Kulbis) attended the Western Regional Summit in Sacramento, California. |
| 2016 | COS Hawaii files for 1st time in Hawai'i the COS Resolution. |