COS Action Hawai'i History

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.

Over the seven years we’ve been submitting our resolution, we’ve garnered support from both parties of our legislature:

Year	House	Senate
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.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare.

As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D.

Family Physician Newport Beach, CA

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

The treatment is also clear.