republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2025/hb-1120.md

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Bill	RELATING TO NUISANCES.	Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent and address nuisances that affect public health or environmental health, or both. Repeals definition of "nuisance" to include toxic materials used in or by-products of methamphetamine drug labs and odors and filth resulting from feeding feral birds. (SD2)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2025	HB 1120	Hawaii HB 1120 (2025)	bill	DOH Environmental Health Nuisance Prevention Public Health	enacted	NAKAMURA	5	38	5	2025-01-21	2025-05-19	openstates	ocd-bill/fc1f56dc-8d15-4dc9-892d-28d2666c0341	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1120&year=2025	39b24f3de741de52af78e24c0fde5812050b1b5b2570094220c7751b3d72ff36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 1120 (2025) — RELATING TO NUISANCES.

Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent and address nuisances that affect public health or environmental health, or both. Repeals definition of "nuisance" to include toxic materials used in or by-products of methamphetamine drug labs and odors and filth resulting from feeding feral birds. (SD2)

Version chain

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

1. HB1120 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1120_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1120_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB1120_SD1 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB1120_SD2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsider: The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsider: Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• NAKAMURA — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-19 Act 073, on 05/19/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1173). became-law
• 2025-05-19 Act 073, 05/19/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1173). became-law
• 2025-04-21 Transmitted to Governor.
• 2025-04-22 Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 794). receipt
• 2025-04-21 Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). passage
• 2025-04-21 House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
• 2025-04-21 Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 760). receipt
• 2025-04-17 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-10-25.
• 2025-04-16 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 810). receipt
• 2025-04-16 Senate Conferees Appointed: San Buenaventura Chair; Rhoads Co-Chair; Fevella.
• 2025-04-11 Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 704). receipt
• 2025-04-10 House disagrees with Senate amendment (s). amendment-failure
• 2025-04-08 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 731) in amended form (SD 2).
• 2025-04-08 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
• 2025-04-03 48 Hrs. Notice 04-08-25.
• 2025-04-03 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1664) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
• 2025-03-27 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) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-27-25 10:40AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
• 2025-03-21 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-25-25 10:01AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
• 2025-03-21 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1263) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
• 2025-03-17 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, Hashimoto, Keohokalole, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 03-17-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.
• 2025-03-06 Referred to HHS, JDC. referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 330). introduction, receipt
• 2025-03-04 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2025-02-28 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25.
• 2025-02-28 Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1055) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2025-02-26 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kahaloa. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Wednesday, 02-26-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-02-12 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) Cochran, Sayama, Ward excused (3). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 447) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.
• 2025-02-07 The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-05 Bill scheduled to be heard by HLT on Friday, 02-07-25 8:45AM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-01-23 Referred to HLT, JHA, referral sheet 3 referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-01-21 Pending introduction.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc1f56dc-8d15-4dc9-892d-28d2666c0341. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).