---
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).