republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2019-regular-session/hb-336.md

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Bill	RELATING TO HAWAII STATE AND CONTRACTED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.	Requires the Director of Public Safety, in the event of the death of an inmate who is in a state or contracted correctional facility, or death of a correctional facility or community correctional center employee, to report to the Governor, who shall then report to the Legislature, certain information regarding the death, subject to state and federal laws. Requires the Department of Public Safety to preserve any forensic evidence consisting of human biological specimens if there is any indication of sexual assault leading to the death. (SD2)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2019 Regular Session	HB 336	Hawaii HB 336 (2019 Regular Session)	bill	Department of Public Safety Correctional Facilities Deaths Report Sexual Assault Evidence	enacted	D. Kobayashi GATES HASHIMOTO HOLT KITAGAWA NAKAMURA PERRUSO QUINLAN TARNAS TODD	4	43	4	2019-01-18	2019-07-09	openstates	ocd-bill/8543923c-1a9d-4499-84b7-ad9beddf2f86	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=336&year=2019	ac2811fdd6041c72168c32c9a464b104f11b1ae07e8820611f216df9b2bbf355	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 336 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO HAWAII STATE AND CONTRACTED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

Requires the Director of Public Safety, in the event of the death of an inmate who is in a state or contracted correctional facility, or death of a correctional facility or community correctional center employee, to report to the Governor, who shall then report to the Legislature, certain information regarding the death, subject to state and federal laws. Requires the Department of Public Safety to preserve any forensic evidence consisting of human biological specimens if there is any indication of sexual assault leading to the death. (SD2)

Version chain

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

1. HB336 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB336_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB336_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB336_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• The committees on PVM recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• D. Kobayashi — primary (person)
• GATES — primary (person)
• HASHIMOTO — primary (person)
• HOLT — primary (person)
• KITAGAWA — primary (person)
• NAKAMURA — primary (person)
• PERRUSO — primary (person)
• QUINLAN — primary (person)
• TARNAS — primary (person)
• TODD — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-18 Pending introduction.
• 2019-01-22 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-22 Referred to PVM, JUD, referral sheet 3 referral-committee
• 2019-02-08 Bill scheduled to be heard by PVM on Wednesday, 02-13-19 10:00AM in House conference room 430.
• 2019-02-13 The committees on PVM recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Gates, D. Kobayashi, Kong, Nishimoto, Ohno, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-15 Reported from PVM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 578) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JUD.
• 2019-02-15 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Aquino, DeCoite, Nakamura, Quinlan, Thielen excused (5). 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, Takayama, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Say; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) McKelvey, Yamane. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-01 Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1169) as amended in HD 2, 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 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa, Quinlan excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2019-03-07 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 369). introduction
• 2019-03-07 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 Referred to PSM, JDC. referral-committee
• 2019-03-08 The committee(s) on PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 03-12-19 1:15PM in conference room 229.
• 2019-03-12 The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Nishihara, Wakai, Baker, Harimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-22 Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1444) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
• 2019-03-22 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC.
• 2019-03-22 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-28-19 9:45AM in conference room 016.
• 2019-03-28 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Rhoads, Gabbard, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Wakai, Fevella. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-04 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1860) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
• 2019-04-04 48 Hrs. Notice 04-09-19.
• 2019-04-09 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). 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. 721) in amended form (SD 2).
• 2019-04-11 House disagrees with Senate amendment (s).
• 2019-04-12 Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 804).
• 2019-04-15 House Conferees Appointed: Takayama, C. Lee Co-Chairs; Gates, Kong, Nakamura, McDermott.
• 2019-04-15 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 808).
• 2019-04-22 Senate Conferees Appointed: Nishihara Chair; K. Rhoads Co-Chair; Fevella.
• 2019-04-22 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 950).
• 2019-04-23 House Conferee(s) discharged.
• 2019-04-24 Received notice of discharge of conferees (Hse. Com. No. 857).
• 2019-04-24 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-11-19.
• 2019-04-25 Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 862).
• 2019-04-25 House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
• 2019-04-25 Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) 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 234, on 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). executive-signature
• 2019-07-09 Act 234, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8543923c-1a9d-4499-84b7-ad9beddf2f86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).