# Dee Morikawa

Dee Morikawa is a Democratic member of the Hawaii House for district 17.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Hawaii House, district 17
- Serving since: 2022-11-08
- Current term: HI 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/587a16dd-bb53-4164-829b-5e1703e06201

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/587a16dd-bb53-4164-829b-5e1703e06201 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Morikawa’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Hawaii, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.79 (standard error 0.06), from 42 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 27% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (HI 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 511 bills: 511 reached committee, 269 passed one chamber, 165 passed both, 55 became law. Cosponsored 4. 71.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Hawaii House 60.2%; rank 7 of 50).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HCR 101: NOMINATING JOHN D. WAIHEʻE III FOR INDUCTION INTO THE ALOHA ORDER OF MERIT. (passed both chambers, 2026-04-24) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HCR101/
- HR 93: NOMINATING JOHN D. WAIHEʻE III FOR INDUCTION INTO THE ALOHA ORDER OF MERIT. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HR93/
- HR 75: SUPPORTING THE USE OF THE DWELLING UNIT REVOLVING FUND TO FUND PREDEVELOPMENT COSTS FOR ANY GOVERNMENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THROUGH INTERIM… (passed one chamber, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HR75/
- HCR 42: URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO MEET THE CRITERIA NECESSARY TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE CHEERLEADING AS A TITLE IX SPORT IN HAWAII. (passed both chambers, 2026-04-24) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HCR42/
- HR 38: URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO MEET THE CRITERIA NECESSARY TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE CHEERLEADING AS A TITLE IX SPORT IN HAWAII. (passed one chamber, 2026-04-02) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HR38/
- HCR 83: SUPPORTING THE USE OF THE DWELLING UNIT REVOLVING FUND TO FUND PREDEVELOPMENT COSTS FOR ANY GOVERNMENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THROUGH INTERIM… (passed both chambers, 2026-04-23) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HCR83/
- HCR 69: REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CORRECT, UPDATE, AND COMPLETE ITS ADMINISTRATIVE RULES GOVERNING THE DRIVER EDUCATION PROGRAM AS RECOMMENDED BY… (passed one chamber, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HCR69/
- HR 63: REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CORRECT, UPDATE, AND COMPLETE ITS ADMINISTRATIVE RULES GOVERNING THE DRIVER EDUCATION PROGRAM AS RECOMMENDED BY… (passed one chamber, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HR63/
- HB 2588: RELATING TO AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING. (in committee, 2026-02-02) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HB2588/
- HB 2414: RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. (in committee, 2026-02-13) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/HB2414/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $21.3K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/legislature/memberpage.aspx?member=96&year=2017
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dee.morikawa
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-morikawa-a3a42b34/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/587a16dd-bb53-4164-829b-5e1703e06201