republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2019-regular-session/hb-201.md

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Bill	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.	Clarifies that a state department that is a member of the invasive species council, counties, and its employees and authorized agents, have authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species when there is a reasonable suspicion that invasive species are present on the property. (SD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2019 Regular Session	HB 201	Hawaii HB 201 (2019 Regular Session)	bill	Invasive Species Private Property Entry Reasonable Suspicion	enacted	BROWER C. LEE CREAGAN JOHANSON LOWEN MCKELVEY MORIKAWA NAKAMURA OHNO TAKAYAMA THIELEN TODD WILDBERGER YAMANE	2	41	4	2019-01-17	2019-07-09	openstates	ocd-bill/1fcb656a-fdf7-4895-879a-951a14e7431b	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=201&year=2019	c6e7b954fa36cc57bf790ee594db18ad6ae7907677dc9d8eb8df67cfbea763b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 201 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Clarifies that a state department that is a member of the invasive species council, counties, and its employees and authorized agents, have authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species when there is a reasonable suspicion that invasive species are present on the property. (SD1)

Version chain

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

1. HB201 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB201_HD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• BROWER — primary (person)
• C. LEE — primary (person)
• CREAGAN — primary (person)
• JOHANSON — primary (person)
• LOWEN — primary (person)
• MCKELVEY — primary (person)
• MORIKAWA — primary (person)
• NAKAMURA — primary (person)
• OHNO — primary (person)
• TAKAYAMA — primary (person)
• THIELEN — primary (person)
• TODD — primary (person)
• WILDBERGER — primary (person)
• YAMANE — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Pending introduction.
• 2019-01-18 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-22 Referred to AGR, JUD, referral sheet 2 referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Re-referred to EEP, JUD, referral sheet 11 referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 Bill scheduled to be heard by EEP on Thursday, 02-07-19 9:00AM in House conference room 325.
• 2019-02-07 The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Wildberger, Har, Tarnas, Todd, Yamane; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Thielen. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-12 Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 270), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JUD.
• 2019-02-12 Deferred one day 02-13-19.
• 2019-02-13 Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with Representative(s) Okimoto 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 JUD on Tuesday, 02-19-19 2:05PM in House conference room 325.
• 2019-02-19 The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred until 02-20-19.
• 2019-02-19 Bill scheduled for decision making on Wednesday, 02-20-19 2:00PM in conference room 325.
• 2019-02-20 The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) C. Lee, San Buenaventura, Brower, Creagan, Lowen, Morikawa, Say, Takayama, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) McKelvey, Yamane. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-01 Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1175) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2019-03-01 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-05-19.
• 2019-03-05 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 1 with Representative(s) Okimoto voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2019-03-07 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 350). introduction
• 2019-03-07 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 Referred to AEN, JDC. referral-committee
• 2019-03-08 The committee(s) on AEN has scheduled a public hearing on 03-13-19 1:15PM in conference room 224.
• 2019-03-13 The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Ruderman, K. Rhoads, L. Thielen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-19 Reported from AEN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1255) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
• 2019-03-19 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC.
• 2019-03-25 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-29-19 9:30AM in conference room 016.
• 2019-03-29 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Rhoads, Wakai, Gabbard, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Kim. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-04 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1853) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
• 2019-04-04 One Day Notice 04-05-19.
• 2019-04-05 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2019-04-05 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 665) in amended form (SD 1).
• 2019-04-09 House disagrees with Senate amendment (s).
• 2019-04-11 Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 719).
• 2019-04-15 Senate Conferees Appointed: Gabbard Chair; K. Rhoads Co-Chair; Fevella.
• 2019-04-15 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 900).
• 2019-04-24 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-09-19.
• 2019-04-25 Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 861).
• 2019-04-25 House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
• 2019-04-25 Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 1 with Representative(s) Kong, Okimoto, Say voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) McDermott voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cachola, Thielen excused (2).
• 2019-04-26 Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 871).
• 2019-04-26 Transmitted to Governor.
• 2019-07-09 Act 197, on 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). executive-signature
• 2019-07-09 Act 197, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1fcb656a-fdf7-4895-879a-951a14e7431b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).