republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2025/hb-951.md

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Bill	RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.	Allows a patient who has been seen in person by a health care provider who is in the same medical group as the prescribing provider authorized pursuant to section 329-33, HRS, to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth. (SD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2025	HB 951	Hawaii HB 951 (2025)	bill	Health Care Providers Opiates Physicians Prescriptions Prescriptive Authority Telehealth Three-day Supply	enacted	CHUN GARRETT HOLT KILA MARTEN MATAYOSHI PERRUSO PIERICK TAKAYAMA TAKENOUCHI TAM TODD	4	35	5	2025-01-21	2025-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/937a291a-32a6-4acd-b58d-b7294687f0de	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=951&year=2025	da246d0c77ba03ab1876a0aae8422e91012b71bd1a912818b3ae4d2f4507f0ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 951 (2025) — RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Allows a patient who has been seen in person by a health care provider who is in the same medical group as the prescribing provider authorized pursuant to section 329-33, HRS, to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth. (SD1)

Version chain

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

1. HB951 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB951_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB951_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB951_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsider: The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsider: Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading. — 23–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• CHUN — primary (person)
• GARRETT — primary (person)
• HOLT — primary (person)
• KILA — primary (person)
• MARTEN — primary (person)
• MATAYOSHI — primary (person)
• PERRUSO — primary (person)
• PIERICK — primary (person)
• TAKAYAMA — primary (person)
• TAKENOUCHI — primary (person)
• TAM — primary (person)
• TODD — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-16 Act 065, on 05/16/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). became-law
• 2025-05-16 Act 065, 05/16/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). 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 1 with Representative(s) Garcia 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. 759). receipt
• 2025-04-17 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-08-25.
• 2025-04-10 Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 621). receipt
• 2025-04-08 House disagrees with Senate amendment (s). amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 581) in amended form (SD 1).
• 2025-04-04 Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 2 (Senator(s) Awa, DeCorte). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2025-04-03 One Day Notice 04-04-25.
• 2025-04-03 Reported from CPN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1643) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
• 2025-03-27 The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 The committee(s) on CPN will hold a public decision making on 03-27-25 9:30AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.
• 2025-03-21 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1261) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to CPN.
• 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, CPN. referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 305). introduction, receipt
• 2025-03-04 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Matsumoto 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 CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1042) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2025-02-19 The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ilagan, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Lowen, Marten, Tam, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-14 Bill scheduled to be heard by CPC on Wednesday, 02-19-25 2:00PM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-02-12 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia 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. 515) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.
• 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; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Garcia; Noes: none; and 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, CPC, 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/937a291a-32a6-4acd-b58d-b7294687f0de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).