republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2024/hb-1842.md

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Bill	RELATING TO FIRE PREVENTION.	Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the fourth degree to a class C felony if the offense was committed during the time period and within the geographic area in which a red flag warning was in effect. Provides that the state of mind requirement with respect to the attendant circumstance that the red flag warning was in effect is negligence. (SD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2024	HB 1842	Hawaii HB 1842 (2024)	bill	Arson Criminal Penalties Fire Protection Laws Red Flag Warning Strict Liability Wildfire Prevention Working Group	enacted	AIU ALCOS AMATO BELATTI CHUN COCHRAN EVSLIN GANADEN GARCIA GARRETT GATES HASHEM HOLT ICHIYAMA ILAGAN KAHALOA KAPELA KILA KITAGAWA KOBAYASHI LA CHICA LAMOSAO LOWEN M. MIZUNO MARTEN MARTINEZ MATAYOSHI MATSUMOTO MIYAKE MORIKAWA NAKAMURA NAKASHIMA NISHIMOTO ONISHI PERRUSO POEPOE QUINLAN SAIKI SAYAMA SOUZA TAKAYAMA TAKENOUCHI TAM TARNAS TODD WARD WOODSON	3	31	3	2024-01-18	2024-07-08	openstates	ocd-bill/375509bd-7b03-446c-be98-a47e093c8d1a	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1842&year=2024	d72d12c75485eeee5f0c9aa002ceb8f2c1462bf880f265ccba3914057d4deec2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 1842 (2024) — RELATING TO FIRE PREVENTION.

Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the fourth degree to a class C felony if the offense was committed during the time period and within the geographic area in which a red flag warning was in effect. Provides that the state of mind requirement with respect to the attendant circumstance that the red flag warning was in effect is negligence. (SD1)

Version chain

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

1. HB1842 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1842_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1842_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider: The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider: The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• AIU — primary (person)
• ALCOS — primary (person)
• AMATO — primary (person)
• BELATTI — primary (person)
• CHUN — primary (person)
• COCHRAN — primary (person)
• EVSLIN — primary (person)
• GANADEN — primary (person)
• GARCIA — primary (person)
• GARRETT — primary (person)
• GATES — primary (person)
• HASHEM — primary (person)
• HOLT — primary (person)
• ICHIYAMA — primary (person)
• ILAGAN — primary (person)
• KAHALOA — primary (person)
• KAPELA — primary (person)
• KILA — primary (person)
• KITAGAWA — primary (person)
• KOBAYASHI — primary (person)
• LA CHICA — primary (person)
• LAMOSAO — primary (person)
• LOWEN — primary (person)
• M. MIZUNO — primary (person)
• MARTEN — primary (person)
• MARTINEZ — primary (person)
• MATAYOSHI — primary (person)
• MATSUMOTO — primary (person)
• MIYAKE — primary (person)
• MORIKAWA — primary (person)
• NAKAMURA — primary (person)
• NAKASHIMA — primary (person)
• NISHIMOTO — primary (person)
• ONISHI — primary (person)
• PERRUSO — primary (person)
• POEPOE — primary (person)
• QUINLAN — primary (person)
• SAIKI — primary (person)
• SAYAMA — primary (person)
• SOUZA — primary (person)
• TAKAYAMA — primary (person)
• TAKENOUCHI — primary (person)
• TAM — primary (person)
• TARNAS — primary (person)
• TODD — primary (person)
• WARD — primary (person)
• WOODSON — primary (person)
• Yamashita — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-07-08 Act 201, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). became-law
• 2024-07-08 Act 201, on 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). became-law
• 2024-04-18 Transmitted to Governor.
• 2024-04-19 Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 772). receipt
• 2024-04-18 Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 1 with Representative(s) Hussey-Burdick voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Garcia excused (1). passage
• 2024-04-18 House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
• 2024-04-18 Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 763). receipt
• 2024-04-17 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-11-24.
• 2024-04-12 Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 731). receipt
• 2024-04-11 House disagrees with Senate amendment (s). amendment-failure
• 2024-04-09 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 522) in amended form (SD 1).
• 2024-04-09 Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2024-04-05 48 Hrs. Notice 04-09-24.
• 2024-04-05 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3649) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 1).
• 2024-03-27 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. 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
• 2024-03-21 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-27-24 9:45AM; CR 016 & Videoconference.
• 2024-03-14 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDC. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3085) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and referral to JDC.
• 2024-03-11 The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in PSM were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 The committee(s) on PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-24 3:00PM; CR 225 & Videoconference.
• 2024-03-07 Referred to PSM, JDC. referral-committee
• 2024-03-07 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2024-03-07 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 238). introduction, receipt
• 2024-03-05 Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Woodson excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2024-02-29 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Aiu, Cochran, Garrett, Holt, Kahaloa, Lowen, Nishimoto, Quinlan, Todd excused (9).
• 2024-02-29 Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 645-24) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2024-02-09 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Ichiyama, Ilagan, Kong, Miyake; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Ganaden; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Holt, Souza. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07 Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Friday, 02-09-24 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2024-01-24 Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1 referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-18 Pending introduction.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/375509bd-7b03-446c-be98-a47e093c8d1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).