HB 145 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT.

Summary

Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Signed into Law

Apr 2025

Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Signed Apr 11, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB145 → HB145_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a legislative document to a Word template format, but the substantive policy content remains largely the same. The main substantive change is a clarification in Section 2 that now explicitly requires expungement orders to include both a court case number and an arrest number associated with the offense, and adds two specific exceptions where courts are not required to seal records (multiple offenses or multiple defendants).

Scope change

The bill's scope now more precisely defines which expungement orders trigger sealing requirements and identifies specific scenarios where sealing is not required.

REQUIREMENT

Section 2 now requires expungement orders to include both a court case number and an arrest number associated with the offense for sealing requirements to apply.

ELIGIBILITY

Added two exceptions where courts are not required to seal records: when a person was charged with multiple offenses where at least one is not expunged, or when a person is one of multiple defendants where at least one defendant has not been subject to an expungement order.

TECHNICAL

The document format changed from plain text legislative markup to a Microsoft Word template format with metadata headers.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 18; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 7 (Senator(s) Awa, Elefante, Fukunaga, Gabbard, Keohokalole, Lee, C., Richards). Transmitted to House.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-25 9:45AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to JDC.

upper

Feb 28, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 9).

upper

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Jan 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Hashem.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 14, 2025

Introduced

Prefiled.

lower

14 primary · 0 co-sponsors