---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE."
description: "Clarifies that the requirement for a motor vehicle insurer to maintain a complete sales and claims service office does not apply to the county of Kalawao."
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "HB 764"
citation: "Hawaii HB 764 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Brick and Mortar Requirement", "Kalawao County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["ICHIYAMA", "TAKUMI"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc731b9c-457c-4b83-a7f4-397e2a37fbb0"
source_url: "http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=764&year=2019"
source_hash: "99d4b3516b9ab9a92e8c67c03e121d6373b9152c1876e9912f744332534081a0"
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 764 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Clarifies that the requirement for a motor vehicle insurer to maintain a complete sales and claims service office does not apply to the county of Kalawao.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB764** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2019/bills/HB764_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- The committee(s) on CPH recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- The committees on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- ICHIYAMA — primary (person)
- TAKUMI — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-22** Pending introduction.
- **2019-01-24** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Referred to TRN, CPC, referral sheet 6 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Bill scheduled to be heard by TRN on Wednesday, 02-06-19 10:00AM in House conference room 423.
- **2019-02-06** The committees on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Aquino, Hashimoto, Brower, Cullen, Matayoshi, Woodson, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Hashem. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 288), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.
- **2019-02-12** Deferred one day 02-13-19.
- **2019-02-13** Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Holt, McDermott, Nakamura, Ward excused (4). `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Bill scheduled to be heard by CPC on Wednesday, 02-20-19 2:00PM in House conference room 329.
- **2019-02-20** The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Takumi, Ichiyama, Aquino, Belatti, Cachola, Har, Kong, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa, Mizuno, Onishi. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 879), recommending passage on Third Reading.
- **2019-02-28** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 77). `introduction`
- **2019-03-01** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** Referred to CPH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** The committee(s) on CPH has scheduled a public hearing on 03-15-19 9:00AM in conference room 229.
- **2019-03-15** The committee(s) on CPH recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in CPH were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Baker, S. Chang, Nishihara, Ruderman, L. Thielen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) J.Keohokalole, Fevella. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Reported from CPH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1768) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2019-04-03** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading.
- **2019-04-03** One Day Notice 04-04-19.
- **2019-04-04** Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 22; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 3 (Senator(s) Keith-Agaran, Kidani, Ruderman). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 650).
- **2019-04-04** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2019-04-24** Act 019, on 04/23/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-24** Act 019, 04/23/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc731b9c-457c-4b83-a7f4-397e2a37fbb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).