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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE."
+description: "Extends Hawaii family leave to include care for employees' grandchildren. Defines \"sibling\". Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD1)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
+legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
+session: "2020 Regular Session"
+identifier: "HB 2148"
+citation: "Hawaii HB 2148 (2020 Regular Session)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family Leave", "Grandchildren", "Sibling", "Child Care"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["BROWER", "ELI", "HASHIMOTO", "ICHIYAMA", "JOHANSON", "KITAGAWA", "MATAYOSHI", "MCKELVEY", "QUINLAN", "Yamashita"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-21"
+last_action: "2020-09-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00b91581-81a2-48ce-b548-38aeb11c60aa"
+source_url: "http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2148&year=2020"
+source_hash: "091146017422219ec63cf04b8c7826e291943e1f1e1ae30696e90ec145add31d"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
+---
+
+# Hawaii HB 2148 (2020 Regular Session) — RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.
+
+Extends Hawaii family leave to include care for employees' grandchildren. Defines "sibling". Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD1)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB2148** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB2148_.HTM)
+2. **HB2148_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB2148_HD1_.HTM)
+3. **HB2148_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB2148_SD1_.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- The committee(s) on LCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **3–0** (pass) · upper
+- The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- BROWER — primary (person)
+- ELI — primary (person)
+- HASHIMOTO — primary (person)
+- ICHIYAMA — primary (person)
+- JOHANSON — primary (person)
+- KITAGAWA — primary (person)
+- MATAYOSHI — primary (person)
+- MCKELVEY — primary (person)
+- QUINLAN — primary (person)
+- Yamashita — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-21** Pending introduction.
+- **2020-01-23** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2020-01-27** Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 5 `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-07** Bill scheduled to be heard by LAB on Tuesday, 02-11-20 9:10AM in House conference room 309.
+- **2020-02-11** The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Johanson, Eli, Ichiyama, Kitagawa, McKelvey, Yamashita, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-13** Reported from LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 456-20) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
+- **2020-02-13** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Eli, Har excused (2). `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Thursday, 02-20-20 12:00PM in House conference room 308.
+- **2020-02-20** The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Eli, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, B. Kobayashi, Matayoshi, Nakamura, Nishimoto, Todd, Wildberger, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-28** Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 804-20), recommending passage on Third Reading.
+- **2020-02-28** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa, DeCoite, Holt, Thielen excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 179). `introduction`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-03** Referred to LCA, WAM. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-06** The committee(s) on LCA has scheduled a public hearing on 03-10-20 2:45PM in conference room 224.
+- **2020-03-10** The committee(s) on LCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LCA were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Taniguchi, Ihara, S. Chang; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard, Fevella. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-05-19** Reported from LCA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3559) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
+- **2020-05-19** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.
+- **2020-07-02** Waived referral to WAM.
+- **2020-07-02** One Day Notice 07-06-20.
+- **2020-07-06** Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
+- **2020-07-06** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 612) in amended form (SD 1).
+- **2020-07-08** Received notice of House intent to agree to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 421).
+- **2020-07-10** House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
+- **2020-07-10** Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ohno excused (1).
+- **2020-07-10** Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 425).
+- **2020-07-10** Transmitted to Governor.
+- **2020-09-15** Act 040, 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1145). `executive-signature`
+- **2020-09-15** Act 040, on 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1145). `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00b91581-81a2-48ce-b548-38aeb11c60aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).
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