RELATING TO HOMELAND SECURITY.
Summary
Establishes the Hawaii State Fusion Center as a program under the Office of Homeland Security and establishes the state-funded position of Hawaii State Fusion Center Director to manage the Center's day-to-day operations and be accountable to the Director of Homeland Security. Effective 1/28/2081. (SD1)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Mar 2019
House Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 24, 2019
Last action Mar 22, 2019
Floor votes · House Feb 28, 2019
How they voted
50–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 51
Feb 28, 2019
D
Democratic45
97% Yea
R
Republican5
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
25
Key actions
9
Committee
16
Mar 22, 2019
Committee
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.
upper
Mar 22, 2019
Committee
Reported from PSM/TEC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1413) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
upper
Mar 14, 2019
Upper · Passed
The committee(s) on TEC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TEC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) J.Keohokalole, Moriwaki, Wakai; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) English, Fevella.
upper
Mar 14, 2019
Upper · Passed
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Nishihara, Wakai, Baker, Harimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.
upper
Mar 11, 2019
Upper · Passed
The committee(s) on PSM/TEC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-14-19 1:50PM in conference room 229.
upper
Mar 11, 2019
Committee
Re-Referred to PSM/TEC, WAM.
upper
Mar 11, 2019
Upper · Passed
The committee(s) on PSM deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 03-14-19 1:15PM in conference room 229.
upper
Mar 8, 2019
Upper · Passed
The committee(s) on PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 03-14-19 1:15PM in conference room 229.
upper
Mar 5, 2019
Committee
Referred to PSM, WAM.
upper
Mar 1, 2019
Introduced
Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 133).
upper
Feb 28, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite excused (1). Transmitted to Senate.
lower
Feb 21, 2019
Lower · Passed
The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Eli, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, B. Kobayashi, Matayoshi, Nakamura, Nishimoto, Wildberger, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Todd.
lower
Feb 15, 2019
Committee
Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Aquino, DeCoite, Nakamura, Quinlan, Thielen excused (5).
lower
Feb 15, 2019
Committee
Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 733) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to FIN.
lower
Feb 14, 2019
Lower · Passed
The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) C. Lee, San Buenaventura, Brower, Creagan, Lowen, Morikawa, Say, Takayama, Yamane, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) McKelvey.
lower
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Reported from PVM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 72), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JUD.
lower
Feb 1, 2019
Lower · Passed
The committees on PVM recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Gates, D. Kobayashi, Kong, Nishimoto, Ohno, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
lower
Jan 28, 2019
Committee
Referred to PVM, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 6
lower
Jan 24, 2019
Introduced
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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