republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2023-regular-session/sb-295.md

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Bill	RELATING TO THE CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.	Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office to contract with an administrative facilitator to provide necessary support for the working group. Requires the Malama Ohana Working Group to report to the Legislature. (CD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2023 Regular Session	SB 295	Hawaii SB 295 (2023 Regular Session)	bill	Child Welfare Services Child Welfare System Malama Ohana Working Group Office of Wellness and Resilience Office of the Governor Report	enacted	AQUINO CHANG DELA CRUZ KANUHA KEITH-AGARAN LEE MCKELVEY MORIWAKI RHOADS	6	48	6	2023-01-19	2023-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/2b201ee3-3f4c-40b3-90a1-3ca48b3dc246	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=295&year=2023	fa3ac453da43a937f44cc8e815cd9b390e4bf9e4dba898f5151c16c4baeaa7b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 295 (2023 Regular Session) — RELATING TO THE CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.

Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office to contract with an administrative facilitator to provide necessary support for the working group. Requires the Malama Ohana Working Group to report to the Legislature. (CD1)

Version chain

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

1. SB295 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB295_CD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB295_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB295_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB295_SD1 (committee substitute) — source
6. SB295_SD2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. — 3–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee on HUS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• AQUINO — primary (person)
• CHANG — primary (person)
• DELA CRUZ — primary (person)
• KANUHA — primary (person)
• KEITH-AGARAN — primary (person)
• LEE — primary (person)
• MCKELVEY — primary (person)
• MORIWAKI — primary (person)
• RHOADS — primary (person)
• Kidani — cosponsor (person)
• Richards — cosponsor (person)
• Wakai — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-14 Act 086, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1187). became-law
• 2023-06-14 Act 086, on 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1187). became-law
• 2023-05-05 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2023-05-04 Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 901). receipt
• 2023-05-04 Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 996). receipt
• 2023-05-04 Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Lowen, Martinez excused (2). passage
• 2023-05-04 Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1) Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). passage
• 2023-05-02 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Thursday, 05-04-23.
• 2023-05-02 Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 172) as amended in (CD 1).
• 2023-05-02 48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 05-04-23.
• 2023-05-02 Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 172).
• 2023-04-28 The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Mizuno, Kobayashi, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
• 2023-04-28 The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Moriwaki, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-28 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:30pm in Conference Room 309.
• 2023-04-27 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 1:30PM in conference room 329.
• 2023-04-26 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-27-23 4:35PM in conference room 329.
• 2023-04-25 Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-26-23 4:35PM in conference room 329.
• 2023-04-27 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 878). receipt
• 2023-04-25 House Conferees Appointed: Mizuno, Kobayashi Co-Chairs; Alcos.
• 2023-04-19 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 911). receipt
• 2023-04-19 Senate Conferees Appointed: San Buenaventura Chair; Moriwaki Co-Chair; Shimabukuro.
• 2023-04-13 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 888). receipt
• 2023-04-13 Senate disagrees with House amendments. amendment-failure
• 2023-04-13 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 729). introduction, receipt
• 2023-04-11 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Todd excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2023-04-06 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 04-11-23.
• 2023-04-06 Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2096) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2023-04-04 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Cochran, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Nishimoto, Ward. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-31 Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Tuesday, 04-04-23 3:00PM in House conference room 308 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2023-03-22 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Kitagawa excused (1). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 Reported from HUS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1428) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
• 2023-03-14 The committee on HUS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Mizuno, Amato, Belatti, Ilagan, Takenouchi, Nishimoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kobayashi. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-10 Bill scheduled to be heard by HUS on Tuesday, 03-14-23 9:00AM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to HUS, FIN, referral sheet 17 referral-committee
• 2023-02-22 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-21 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 22) in amended form (SD 2). introduction, receipt
• 2023-02-21 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
• 2023-02-17 48 Hrs. Notice 02-21-23.
• 2023-02-17 Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 655) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
• 2023-02-15 The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WAM were as follows: 11 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Keith-Agaran, Aquino, DeCoite, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Kim, Shimabukuro, Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Lee, Moriwaki. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-10 The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-15-23 10:30AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference.
• 2023-02-07 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 64) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
• 2023-01-30 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Moriwaki, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-27 The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-23 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.
• 2023-01-23 Referred to HHS, WAM. referral-committee
• 2023-01-19 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2023-01-19 Introduced. introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b201ee3-3f4c-40b3-90a1-3ca48b3dc246. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).