Senate Resolution 73 Summary

• Hawaii Senate endorses the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and urges the United States to adopt it as a centerpiece of national security policy.

• Calls for the United States to renounce first-use of nuclear weapons, end the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, remove nuclear weapons from hair-trigger alert status, and cancel plans to enhance the nuclear arsenal.

• Supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 aimed at promoting peaceful societies, providing access to justice, and reducing illicit arms flows.

• Notes that approximately 14,000 nuclear weapons remain globally, with over 90 percent held by the United States and Russia, posing catastrophic risks including potential climate disruption and global famine.

• Directs transmission of the resolution to the President, Congress, UN leadership, Hawaii's congressional delegation, and state and county officials.