republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2025/sb-116.md

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Bill	RELATING TO DISCRIMINATION.	Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that any person who causes a law enforcement officer to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived protected class with the intent to discriminate against the person shall be civilly liable. Requires the Department of Law Enforcement, in consultation with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, to provide guidance to the public on the enactment of this Act. For purpose and intent of the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission law, adding "place of birth" as a protected class. Effective 9/1/2025. (HD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2025	SB 116	Hawaii SB 116 (2025)	bill	Civil Remedy DLE Discriminatory Reporting Law Enforcement Officer Protected Class	enacted	C. CHANG LEE RHOADS	4	34	5	2025-01-09	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/aed2e884-cec4-4778-bec5-55a54c1da8ad	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=116&year=2025	b74b335cff114d03cb708916205aecf95a6f2a65b681ded13665a714c2e88cea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 116 (2025) — RELATING TO DISCRIMINATION.

Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that any person who causes a law enforcement officer to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived protected class with the intent to discriminate against the person shall be civilly liable. Requires the Department of Law Enforcement, in consultation with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, to provide guidance to the public on the enactment of this Act. For purpose and intent of the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission law, adding "place of birth" as a protected class. Effective 9/1/2025. (HD1)

Version chain

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

1. SB116 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB116_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB116_SD1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB116_SD2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsider: Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). — 24–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Final Reading. — 23–2 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider: The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C. — primary (person)
• CHANG — primary (person)
• LEE — primary (person)
• RHOADS — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-07-01 Act 259, on 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1362). became-law
• 2025-07-01 Act 259, 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1362). became-law
• 2025-04-21 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-21 Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 845). receipt
• 2025-04-21 Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 2 (Senator(s) Awa, DeCorte). Excused, 0 (none). passage
• 2025-04-21 Received notice of reconsideration and Senate agreement (Sen. Com. No. 832). receipt
• 2025-04-17 One Day Notice 04-21-25
• 2025-04-17 Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 04-21-25.
• 2025-04-17 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-08-25 in disagreeing to the House amendments.
• 2025-04-08 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 774). receipt
• 2025-04-08 Senate disagrees with House amendments. amendment-failure
• 2025-04-08 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 571). introduction, receipt
• 2025-04-04 Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Matsumoto, Pierick voting no (4) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kapela, Marten excused (3). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2025-04-02 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with Representative(s) Matsumoto, Shimizu voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Pierick voting no (3) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1).
• 2025-04-02 Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1749) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2025-03-11 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia, Shimizu; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Re-referred to JHA, referral sheet 20 referral-committee
• 2025-03-07 Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Tuesday, 03-11-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-03-06 Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 19 referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-04 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 88) in amended form (SD 2). introduction, receipt
• 2025-03-04 Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Fevella). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2025-02-27 48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25.
• 2025-02-27 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 733) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
• 2025-02-12 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Awa. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-11 The committee(s) on JDC deferred the measure until 02-12-25 9:50AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference. deferral
• 2025-02-07 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-11-25 10:00AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
• 2025-02-05 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 36) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
• 2025-01-24 The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-01-21 The committee(s) on PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 01-24-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.
• 2025-01-16 Referred to PSM, JDC. referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Introduced and passed First Reading. introduction
• 2025-01-09 Pending Introduction.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aed2e884-cec4-4778-bec5-55a54c1da8ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).