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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RELATING TO INTERCEPTION OF WIRE, ORAL, OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION."
+description: "Requires the Department of the Attorney General to provide a written memorandum recommending approval or disapproval of an order authorizing or approving the interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication to the prosecuting attorney within twenty-four hours of the prosecuting attorney's request to the Department. Establishes a process for emergency applications for emergency orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications. (HD1)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
+legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 284"
+citation: "Hawaii SB 284 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AG", "Criminal Offenses", "Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Package", "Wiretapping Authorization"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["KOUCHI"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-14"
+last_action: "2025-05-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae63ff45-4d7a-48d8-a228-eb58b067f08e"
+source_url: "https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=284&year=2025"
+source_hash: "0d34e202573f63858bb7d98096ebf9f51a4843d0637851de058273461b8c7726"
+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 SB 284 (2025) — RELATING TO INTERCEPTION OF WIRE, ORAL, OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION.
+
+Requires the Department of the Attorney General to provide a written memorandum recommending approval or disapproval of an order authorizing or approving the interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication to the prosecuting attorney within twenty-four hours of the prosecuting attorney's request to the Department. Establishes a process for emergency applications for emergency orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications. (HD1)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB284** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB284_.HTM)
+2. **SB284_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB284_HD1_.HTM)
+3. **SB284_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/SB284_SD1_.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reconsider: The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Final Reading. — **23–0** (pass) · upper
+- The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reconsider: Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). — **25–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- KOUCHI — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-19** Act 078, on 05/19/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). `became-law`
+- **2025-05-19** Act 078, 05/19/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). `became-law`
+- **2025-04-16** Enrolled to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-16** Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 806). `receipt`
+- **2025-04-16** Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 2 (Senator(s) Fevella, Ihara). `passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Received notice of reconsideration and Senate agreement (Sen. Com. No. 786). `receipt`
+- **2025-04-15** One Day Notice 04-16-25
+- **2025-04-15** Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 04-16-25.
+- **2025-04-15** Reconsideration of action taken on 04-03-25 in disagreeing to the House amendments.
+- **2025-04-15** Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 731). `receipt`
+- **2025-04-14** House Conferees Appointed: Tarnas Chair; Belatti, Shimizu.
+- **2025-04-03** Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 481). `receipt`
+- **2025-04-03** Senate disagrees with House amendments. `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-03** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 432). `introduction, receipt`
+- **2025-04-02** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Hussey, Lowen, Ward excused (4).
+- **2025-03-31** Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1721) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
+- **2025-03-13** The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Thursday, 03-13-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
+- **2025-03-06** Referred to JHA, referral sheet 19 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** Pass First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-04** Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 121) in amended form (SD 1). `introduction, receipt`
+- **2025-03-04** Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** 48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25.
+- **2025-02-28** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1). `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 882) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
+- **2025-02-20** The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-14** The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 02-20-25 9:45AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
+- **2025-01-21** Referred to JDC. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15** Introduced and passed First Reading. `introduction`
+- **2025-01-14** Pending Introduction.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae63ff45-4d7a-48d8-a228-eb58b067f08e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).
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