HB 1158 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO FIREFIGHTING AT COMMERCIAL HARBORS.

Summary

Limits civil liability of individuals who render firefighting services with a firefighting vessel at any of the State's commercial harbors or roadsteads, any commercial harbor or waterfront improvement belonging to or controlled by the State, or any vessel within a commercial harbor or roadstead to only damages resulting from an individual's gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1158 → HB1158_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill text was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a House of Representatives version with metadata headers. The substantive policy content remains the same, though the effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000' and the statutory language was slightly modified to add 'with a firefighting vessel' to clarify the scope of protected services.

Scope change

The scope of protected firefighting services was slightly narrowed to specifically require the use of a firefighting vessel, and the effective date was changed to a future date of July 1, 3000.

TIMELINE

The effective date changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000'

SCOPE

Added 'with a firefighting vessel' to clarify that the liability protection applies specifically when using a firefighting vessel

TECHNICAL

Added metadata headers including bill number, sponsor information, and document revision details

Removed justification sheet and summary description sections that were present in the original version

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to TCA/PSM, JDC.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 339).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Sayama, Ward excused (3).

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 457), recommending referral to JHA.

lower

Feb 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Hashem, Ichiyama.

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 108) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to PBS.

lower

Jan 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica.

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to TRN, PBS, JHA, referral sheet 3

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors