republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2019-regular-session/hb-31.md

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Bill	RELATING TO ELECTION NOMINATION PAPERS.	Amends the voter information requirements for election nomination papers and the withdrawal of a nominating voter's signature by requiring only the month and date portions of a voter's date of birth. Repeals the social security number requirements. (HB31 HD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2019 Regular Session	HB 31	Hawaii HB 31 (2019 Regular Session)	bill	Election Nomination Papers Voter Information Requirements	enacted	BROWER C. LEE CACHOLA HASHEM HOLT Hashimoto ICHIYAMA JOHANSON KONG MIZUNO MORIKAWA NAKASHIMA NISHIMOTO OHNO QUINLAN SAN BUENAVENTURA SAY TAKAYAMA	1	23	2	2019-01-16	2019-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/47a7979f-01cf-4ac5-a92d-d1eeeb0310bd	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=31&year=2019	4ee946644660ab1641849b6f46530c027af2d8cfa457044b39a89b4e5b1344e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 31 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO ELECTION NOMINATION PAPERS.

Amends the voter information requirements for election nomination papers and the withdrawal of a nominating voter's signature by requiring only the month and date portions of a voter's date of birth. Repeals the social security number requirements. (HB31 HD1)

Version chain

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

1. HB31 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• BROWER — primary (person)
• C. LEE — primary (person)
• CACHOLA — primary (person)
• HASHEM — primary (person)
• HOLT — primary (person)
• Hashimoto — primary (person)
• ICHIYAMA — primary (person)
• JOHANSON — primary (person)
• KONG — primary (person)
• MIZUNO — primary (person)
• MORIKAWA — primary (person)
• NAKASHIMA — primary (person)
• NISHIMOTO — primary (person)
• OHNO — primary (person)
• QUINLAN — primary (person)
• SAN BUENAVENTURA — primary (person)
• SAY — primary (person)
• TAKAYAMA — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-16 Pending introduction.
• 2019-01-17 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-22 Referred to JUD, referral sheet 2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Thursday, 01-31-19 2:00PM in House conference room 325.
• 2019-01-31 The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred until 02-01-19.
• 2019-01-31 Bill scheduled for decision making on Friday, 02-01-19 2:01PM in conference room 325.
• 2019-02-01 The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) C. Lee, San Buenaventura, Brower, Creagan, Lowen, McKelvey, Morikawa, Takayama; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Say, Yamane, Thielen. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-14 Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 474) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2019-02-14 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) Aquino, Nakamura excused (2).
• 2019-02-19 Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McKelvey, Nakamura excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2019-02-20 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 7). introduction
• 2019-02-20 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 Referred to JDC. referral-committee
• 2019-03-11 The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-14-19 9:30AM in conference room 016.
• 2019-03-14 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, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-05 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1889) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2019-04-05 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading.
• 2019-04-05 One Day Notice 04-09-19.
• 2019-04-09 Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2019-04-09 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 687).
• 2019-04-09 Transmitted to Governor.
• 2019-04-24 Act 022, on 04/23/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1123). executive-signature
• 2019-04-24 Act 022, 04/23/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1123). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47a7979f-01cf-4ac5-a92d-d1eeeb0310bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).