Since his election to the State House in 2012, Representative Gregg Takayama has been a strong advocate for public safety, kupuna health and correctional reforms.
Gregg represents the Pearl City community, where he has lived for several decades with his wife Linda Chu Takayama and raised their three daughters.
He is a proud graduate of Farrington High School and the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a degree in journalism. He is a former award-winning journalist who worked at KHON-TV as a news reporter; served as press secretary to late U.S. Senator Dan Inouye; and communications director for the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine and later for the Manoa Chancellor.
Gregg currently serves as Chair of the House Health Committee and is a member of the House Human Services & Homelessness and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committees.
He authored measures to establish the first-in-the nation Kupuna Caregivers Program to assist family members caring for loved ones; increase gun safety measures; and establish the correctional system oversight commission.
In 2025 Gregg led passage of health laws to improve the prior authorization process; regulate nurse midwives; increase funding for immunization vaccines and viral hepatitis; and improve access to medical cannabis.