republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2023-regular-session/sb-406.md

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Bill	RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION.	Allows the court to award reasonable visitation rights to a petitioning grandparent of a minor child when the child's parent is unable to exercise parental visitation due to death or incarceration and denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Requires the court to follow best interest of the child procedures, considerations, and standards when granting grandparent visitation rights. Specifies that any person who violates the terms and conditions of a court order granting reasonable grandparent visitation rights are subject to sanctions. (HD2)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2023 Regular Session	SB 406	Hawaii SB 406 (2023 Regular Session)	bill	Best Interest of the Child Child Custody Grandparent Visitation	enacted	AQUINO KEITH-AGARAN MCKELVEY SAN BUENAVENTURA	4	36	4	2023-01-20	2023-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/86e7e599-2861-4033-935a-763db34ed774	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=406&year=2023	31ac32b814d1d7609b8baa3a5192c2bd47684f01009eadaca66bc72bc4ae9e90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 406 (2023 Regular Session) — RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION.

Allows the court to award reasonable visitation rights to a petitioning grandparent of a minor child when the child's parent is unable to exercise parental visitation due to death or incarceration and denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Requires the court to follow best interest of the child procedures, considerations, and standards when granting grandparent visitation rights. Specifies that any person who violates the terms and conditions of a court order granting reasonable grandparent visitation rights are subject to sanctions. (HD2)

Version chain

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

1. SB406 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB406_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB406_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB406_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsider: The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsider: The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 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. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• AQUINO — primary (person)
• KEITH-AGARAN — primary (person)
• MCKELVEY — primary (person)
• SAN BUENAVENTURA — primary (person)
• Dela Cruz — cosponsor (person)
• Ihara — cosponsor (person)
• Wakai — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-14 Act 077, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). became-law
• 2023-06-14 Act 077, on 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). became-law
• 2023-04-18 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-18 Received notice of reconsideration, Senate agreement, and Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 902). receipt
• 2023-04-18 Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fevella . 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa. 1 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara. passage
• 2023-04-17 One Day Notice 04-18-23.
• 2023-04-17 Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 04-18-23.
• 2023-04-17 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-04-23 in disagreeing to the House amendments.
• 2023-04-04 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 557). receipt
• 2023-04-04 Senate disagrees with House amendments. amendment-failure
• 2023-04-04 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 542). introduction, receipt
• 2023-04-03 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nishimoto excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2023-03-31 Deferred one day 04-03-23. deferral
• 2023-03-29 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Friday, 03-31-23.
• 2023-03-29 Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1637) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2023-03-24 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Ganaden, Holt, Hashimoto, Ichiyama, Mizuno, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ilagan, Kong. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-22 Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Friday, 03-24-23 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2023-03-21 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JHA with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Quinlan excused (1). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Reported from HUS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1405) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.
• 2023-03-14 The committee on HUS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Mizuno, Amato, Belatti, Ilagan, Takenouchi, Nishimoto, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; 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, JHA, referral sheet 17 referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2023-03-07 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 159) in amended form (SD 1). introduction, receipt
• 2023-03-07 Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 22; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 2 (Senator(s) Awa, Fevella). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Fukunaga). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2023-03-03 One Day Notice 03-07-23.
• 2023-03-03 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 852) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
• 2023-03-01 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) Rhoads, Gabbard, Elefante, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-24 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-01-23 9:30AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
• 2023-02-15 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-15 Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 317) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
• 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.
• 2023-01-25 Referred to HHS, JDC. referral-committee
• 2023-01-20 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2023-01-20 Introduced. introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86e7e599-2861-4033-935a-763db34ed774. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).