Hawaii Senate Bill 406 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Passed on June 14 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-06-14 - Act 077, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178).
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Allows the court to award reasonable visitation rights to a petitioning grandparent of a minor child when the child's parent is unable to exercise parental visitation due to death or incarceration and denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Requires the court to follow best interest of the child procedures, considerations, and standards when granting grandparent visitation rights. Specifies that any person who violates the terms and conditions of a court order granting reasonable grandparent visitation rights are subject to sanctions. (HD2)

Relating To Child Visitation.

Sen. Joy San Buenaventura [D]	Sen. Henry Aquino [D]	Sen. Gil Keith-agaran [D]	Sen. Angus McKelvey [D]
Sen. Donovan Cruz [D]	Sen. Les Ihara [D]	Sen. Glenn Wakai [D]

2023-03-01 - Senate - Senate Judiciary: Passed, Unamended (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-30 - Senate - Senate Health and Human Services: Passed, With Amendments (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-06-14	Senate	Act 077, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178).
2023-06-14	House	Act 077, on 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178).
2023-04-18	Senate	Enrolled to Governor.
2023-04-18	House	Received notice of reconsideration, Senate agreement, and Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 902).
2023-04-18	Senate	Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fevella . 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa. 1 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara.
2023-04-17	Senate	One Day Notice 04-18-23.
2023-04-17	Senate	Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 04-18-23.
2023-04-17	Senate	Reconsideration of action taken on 04-04-23 in disagreeing to the House amendments.
2023-04-04	House	Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 557).
2023-04-04	Senate	Senate disagrees with House amendments.
2023-04-04	Senate	Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 542).
2023-04-03	House	Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nishimoto excused (1). Transmitted to Senate.
2023-03-31	House	Deferred one day 04-03-23.
2023-03-29	House	Forty-eight (48) hours notice Friday, 03-31-23.
2023-03-29	House	Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1637) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
2023-03-24	House	The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Ganaden, Holt, Hashimoto, Ichiyama, Mizuno, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ilagan, Kong.
2023-03-22	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Friday, 03-24-23 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2023-03-21	House	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) Quinlan excused (1).
2023-03-21	House	Reported from HUS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1405) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.
2023-03-14	House	The committee on HUS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Mizuno, Amato, Belatti, Ilagan, Takenouchi, Nishimoto, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kobayashi.
2023-03-10	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by HUS on Tuesday, 03-14-23 9:00AM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2023-03-09	House	Referred to HUS, JHA, referral sheet 17
2023-03-09	House	Pass First Reading
2023-03-07	House	Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 159) in amended form (SD 1).
2023-03-07	Senate	Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 22; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 2 (Senator(s) Awa, Fevella). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Fukunaga). Transmitted to House.
2023-03-03	Senate	One Day Notice 03-07-23.
2023-03-03	Senate	Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 852) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
2023-03-01	Senate	The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. 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.
2023-02-24	Senate	The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 03-01-23 9:30AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
2023-02-15	Senate	Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC.
2023-02-15	Senate	Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 317) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
2023-01-30	Senate	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, Moriwaki, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
2023-01-27	Senate	The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-23 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.
2023-01-25	Senate	Referred to HHS, JDC.
2023-01-20	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2023-01-20	Senate	Introduced.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=406&year=2023
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB406_.HTM
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB406_SD1_.HTM
Roll Call	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=406&year=2023