Currently holds the office of Hawaii House of Representatives - District 25 until November 3, 2026.
Candidate for Hawaii House of Representatives - District 25 in 2024 Hawaii General Election.
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.
Get StartedKim Coco supports the requirement that any law enforcement personnel in the state, who carries a gun, must wear a bodycam to document their behavior. Learn more
Kim Coco supports investing in getting parents out of prison facilities and reintegrating them into their families and communities in a supported way. Learn more
Kim Coco supports legislation legalizing use and taxing sale of marijuana for non-medical use; she does not support taxing marijuana for medications. Learn more
Kim Coco supports ensuring that local law enforcement and government agencies – including local police departments, school systems, social service agencies – limit cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in enforcing federal immigration policy. Learn more
Kim Coco supports mandatory disclosure of misconduct and adequate funding for oversight boards. Learn more
Kim Coco supports legislation to increase use of non-monetary bail and to fund and institute supportive pretrial systems and services in our community so that fewer legally innocent people are forced to suffer pretrial incarceration. Learn more
Kim Coco supports legislation that expands alternatives to incarceration for individuals convicted of nonviolent crimes. Learn more
Kim Coco supports a tax on air travel to subsidize the cost of planting sufficient trees to mitigate the carbon footprint of each air traveler to Hawaiʻi. Learn more
Kim Coco supports limiting tourism to each island’s carrying capacity. Learn more
Kim Coco supports legislation guaranteeing universal pre-K for all children in Hawaiʻi. Learn more
Kim Coco supports fully funding the public education system in Hawaiʻi. Learn more
Kim Coco supports more social workers in the schools. All adults who have children or have a proximity to children should undergo online training certification on how to identify and avoid all forms of child abuse and neglect. Learn more
Kim Coco supports legislation to eliminate undergraduate tuition at public colleges and universities in Hawaiʻi. Learn more
Kim Coco opposes private school vouchers. Learn more
Kim Coco supports a 100% carbon-free Hawaiʻi by 2032, while ensuring a just transition for communities and workers, paid for by a price on emissions, to generate good jobs and economic growth while reducing carbon emissions. Learn more
Kim Coco supports ending our greenhouse gas emissions by eradicating our dependency on all forms of fossil fuels, including single-use plastics and polystyrene. Learn more
Kim Coco supports using detailed, science-based assessments of how sea level rise will alter the coastal landscape on each island to create an inventory of assets that will be lost—and when. Learn more
Kim Coco supports implementing greater coastal setbacks for development to mitigate against sea level rise. Learn more
Kim Coco supports checking the military industrial complex and its threat to life and the environment in Hawaiʻi–the Red Hill Fuel tank leaks being one example. Learn more
For the Honolulu rail project, Kim Coco believes that turning back now is not an option, but we cannot continue to write blank checks for change orders. Learn more
Kim Coco supports requiring the state Employee Retirement System to divest its holdings in the top 100 fossil fuel companies. Learn more
Kim Coco supports shutting down Hawaiʻi’s only coal plant. Learn more
Kim Coco supports an Environmental Impact Study by the State for tourism. Learn more
Kim Coco supports the entirety of the Hawaiʻi Green New Deal, with greater and clearer emphasis on just transitions. Learn more
Kim Coco supports a “single payer” Medicare For All-type system of universal healthcare. Learn more
Kim Coco supports the Hawaiʻi Health Authority All-Payer Proposal, as it delivers the benefits of universal healthcare while eliminating administrative waste. Learn more
Kim Coco supports tenant protections, “just cause” eviction laws, and rent regulations to protect tenants from unfair eviction. Learn more
40% of privately owned land in Hawaiʻi, is owned by an out-of-state investor. Kim Coco supports increasing property taxes on investment properties that do not house state residents. Learn more
Kim Coco believes that housing is a human right. Learn more
Kim Coco supports a moratorium on the issuance of building permits for luxury residential and hotel developments until all of our affordable housing needs are met. Learn more
Kim Coco supports funding for “shovel ready” construction projects that build capacity for affordable housing, climate crisis mitigation, and infrastructure for increased capacity of Dept. Of Hawaiʻian Homelands to house more Hawaiʻians per Constitution. Learn more
Kim Coco supports a state DREAM act, which would allow undocumented children brought to the United States as minors to have access to in-state college tuition rates. Learn more
Kim Coco supports all state residents who pass the driving test a license regardless of immigration status. Learn more
Kim Coco supports prioritization of climate-ready infrastructure projects (1 billion state bond issuance), such as investing in the relocation of major public infrastructure at risk from sea level rise, advancing state-of-the art clean energy projects, electrical and sewer upgrades, and new workforce housing and clean transportation infrastructure. Learn more
Kim Coco supports incentivizing public transport ridership through reduced or free fares for residents. Learn more
“Raising sufficient revenue to meet the costs of needed state services and social safety-net is the prime directive of the Legislature.” - Kim Coco. Learn more
Kim Coco supports assessing a visitor fee, as New Zealand does, to offset the environmental and social impacts. Learn more
Kim Coco will work to close tax loopholes and collect fair-share taxes from corporations, its wealthiest residents, and out-of-state real estate investors. Learn more
Kim Coco supports protecting public assets from privatization that would compromise the long-term safety and sustainability of our communities. Learn more
Kim Coco supports workers’ rights to collectively bargain with both public and private entities on issues including, but not limited to, healthcare and pensions. Learn more
Kim Coco supports universal child care and elder care. Learn more
Kim Coco supports the Working Families Coalition proposal that the state provide temporary subsidy using CARES monies for childcare and eldercare. Learn more
Kim Coco supports all employees’ right to unionize. Learn more
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.