SCR 44 Hawaii Senate · 2023 Regular Session

URGING THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO INCLUDE IN ALL LIVE AND RECORDED EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM VIDEO BROADCASTS, AN ON-SCREEN INTERPRETER DISSEMINATING THE EMERGENCY INFORMATION IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AT ALL TIMES, INCLUDING DURING GRAPHIC PRESENTATIONS.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2023

Committee Review

Apr 2023

Senate Passage

Apr 2023

House Passage

Apr 2023

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2023 Last action May 22, 2023

Floor votes · House Apr 24, 2023

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.

Full legislative history

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Committee

Apr 25, 2023

Upper · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

upper

Apr 25, 2023

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 849).

upper

Apr 24, 2023

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).

lower

Apr 24, 2023

Lower · Passed

Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2247), recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 19, 2023

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Cochran, Garrett, Kahaloa, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Kila, Kobayashi, Nishimoto, Ward.

lower

Apr 17, 2023

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Lowen, Nakashima excused (2).

lower

Apr 17, 2023

Committee

Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2200), recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Apr 14, 2023

Lower · Passed

The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Takenouchi, Amato, Ilagan, Kobayashi, Nishimoto, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Mizuno.

lower

Apr 11, 2023

Committee

Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 5, 2023

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 575) in amended form (SD 1).

lower

Apr 5, 2023

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 4, 2023

Upper · Passed

Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1684) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Mar 31, 2023

Upper · Passed

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) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Mar 28, 2023

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on PSM added the measure to the public hearing scheduled on 03-31-23 3:01PM; CR 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 10, 2023

Committee

Referred to PSM.

upper

Mar 7, 2023

Introduced

Offered.

upper

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors