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Bill	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.	Abolishes the office of community services special fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and transfers unencumbered balance to the general fund.	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2018 Regular Session	HB 1654	Hawaii HB 1654 (2018 Regular Session)	bill	Repeal of Non-General Funds DLIR Transfer of Balance	enacted	CULLEN LUKE	1	27	4	2018-01-11	2018-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/44e418ae-9196-4612-975e-ea340c4fb5ed	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1654&year=2018	c4ca5cbf7a40838f64ab3515558425a44f69f343fad12b0dc39a8597f1574458	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 1654 (2018 Regular Session) — RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Abolishes the office of community services special fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and transfers unencumbered balance to the general fund.

Version chain

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

1. HB1654 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on LBR recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 3–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• CULLEN — primary (person)
• LUKE — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-11 Prefiled.
• 2018-01-17 Introduced and Pass First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2018-01-17 Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 3 referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Bill scheduled to be heard by LAB on Tuesday, 01-30-18 9:30AM in House conference room 309.
• 2018-01-30 The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Johanson, Holt, Evans, Ichiyama, Keohokalole, Yamashita, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-06 Reported from LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 71-18), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
• 2018-02-06 Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Kong, Souki excused (3). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2018-02-16 Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Wednesday, 02-21-18 2:00PM in House conference room 308.
• 2018-02-21 The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 13 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Cachola, DeCoite, Fukumoto, Gates, Holt, Kobayashi, Lowen, Nakamura, Todd, Yamashita, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Keohokalole, Tupola. committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-01 Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 827-18), recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2018-03-01 Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McKelvey, Yamane excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2018-03-02 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 50). introduction
• 2018-03-02 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2018-03-06 Referred to LBR, WAM. referral-committee
• 2018-03-09 The committee(s) on LBR has scheduled a public hearing on 03-13-18 3:00PM in conference room 229.
• 2018-03-13 The committee(s) on LBR recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in LBR were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Tokuda, S. Chang, Taniguchi; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) English, Ihara. committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-21 Reported from LBR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2983) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and referral to WAM.
• 2018-03-21 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM.
• 2018-03-29 The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 04-04-18 10:30AM in conference room 211.
• 2018-04-04 The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WAM were as follows: 11 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Keith-Agaran, English, Galuteria, Harimoto, Inouye, K. Kahele, Kidani, Riviere, Shimabukuro, Wakai; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-06 Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3672) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
• 2018-04-06 One Day Notice 04-10-18.
• 2018-04-10 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Harimoto). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2018-04-10 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 576).
• 2018-04-10 Transmitted to Governor.
• 2018-04-24 Act 006, on 04/24/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1106). executive-signature
• 2018-04-24 Act 006, 04/24/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1106). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44e418ae-9196-4612-975e-ea340c4fb5ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).