republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2020-regular-session/hb-1978.md

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Bill	RELATING TO SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILE STATUS.	Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, neglected, or abandoned before the age of 18. (SD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2020 Regular Session	HB 1978	Hawaii HB 1978 (2020 Regular Session)	bill	Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Family Court Jurisdiction	enacted	AQUINO BELATTI C. LEE CABANILLA ARAKAWA CACHOLA CULLEN HASHIMOTO HOLT Har ICHIYAMA JOHANSON MIZUNO NAKASHIMA QUINLAN SAY San Buenaventura TOKIOKA WOODSON YAMANE	3	37	4	2020-01-17	2020-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/606a4313-f76e-4c86-903f-3c08844576a8	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1978&year=2020	085098eb067c2af27f7cf1fad8baa9f1cec8593f64efbaf7474c671a31dcbee4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 1978 (2020 Regular Session) — RELATING TO SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILE STATUS.

Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, neglected, or abandoned before the age of 18. (SD1)

Version chain

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

1. HB1978 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1978_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1978_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on HMS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• AQUINO — primary (person)
• BELATTI — primary (person)
• C. LEE — primary (person)
• CABANILLA ARAKAWA — primary (person)
• CACHOLA — primary (person)
• CULLEN — primary (person)
• HASHIMOTO — primary (person)
• HOLT — primary (person)
• Har — primary (person)
• ICHIYAMA — primary (person)
• JOHANSON — primary (person)
• MIZUNO — primary (person)
• NAKASHIMA — primary (person)
• QUINLAN — primary (person)
• SAY — primary (person)
• San Buenaventura — primary (person)
• TOKIOKA — primary (person)
• WOODSON — primary (person)
• YAMANE — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-17 Pending introduction.
• 2020-01-21 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-01-23 Referred to HSH, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 4 referral-committee
• 2020-01-24 Bill scheduled to be heard by HSH on Wednesday, 01-29-20 8:30AM in House conference room 329.
• 2020-01-29 The committees on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) San Buenaventura, Nakamura, Belatti, B. Kobayashi, Mizuno, Tokioka, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Say. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-31 Reported from HSH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 14-20) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JUD.
• 2020-01-31 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) Ichiyama, Matsumoto, Say excused (3). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2020-02-11 Re-referred to HSH, JUD, referral sheet 27 referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Tuesday, 02-25-20 2:00PM in House conference room 325.
• 2020-02-25 The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred until 02-26-20 at 2:00pm.
• 2020-02-25 Bill scheduled for decision making on Wednesday, 02-26-20 2:00PM in conference room 325.
• 2020-02-26 The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) C. Lee, San Buenaventura, Brower, Lowen, Nakashima, Perruso, Say, Takayama, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Creagan, McKelvey, Yamane. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 918-20), 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. 156). introduction
• 2020-03-03 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2020-03-03 Referred to HMS, JDC. referral-committee
• 2020-03-03 The committee(s) on HMS has scheduled a public hearing on 03-06-20 2:45PM in conference room 016.
• 2020-03-06 The committee(s) on HMS deferred the measure until 03-16-20 3:00PM in conference room 016.
• 2020-03-16 The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice.
• 2020-06-22 The committee(s) on HMS will hold a public decision making on 06-24-20 3:00PM in conference room 016.
• 2020-06-24 The committee(s) on HMS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HMS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Ruderman, K. Rhoads, Ihara, Riviere, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-26 Reported from HMS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3675) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and referral to JDC.
• 2020-06-26 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDC.
• 2020-06-26 The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 06-30-20 9:46AM in conference room 016.
• 2020-06-30 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Rhoads, J.Keohokalole, Gabbard, Kim, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-07-02 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3751) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 1).
• 2020-07-02 48 Hrs. Notice 07-06-20.
• 2020-07-06 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). 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. 583) 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 036, 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1141). executive-signature
• 2020-09-15 Act 036, on 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1141). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/606a4313-f76e-4c86-903f-3c08844576a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).