HB 2187 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Summary

Prohibits health care facilities, health care providers, and emergency medical services from furnishing medical debt to a consumer credit reporting agency. Prohibits consumer credit reporting agencies from reporting or maintaining medical debt information in the file on a consumer. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Mar 2026

House Passage

Mar 2026

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 26, 2026 Last action Mar 10, 2026

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What changed between versions

HB2187 → HB2187_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was updated from its original House version to the House Draft 1 version, incorporating standard legislative formatting, correcting a future effective date from the year 3000 to July 1, 3000 (likely a placeholder or typo in the original that remains unchanged in this specific diff context), and adding metadata headers. The core policy prohibiting the reporting of medical debt to credit agencies remains identical.

TECHNICAL

Added standard legislative headers, bill number formatting, and metadata fields (e.g., sponsor name, timestamps) that were missing in the raw text version.

Replaced the original page numbering and footer text with a new header block containing bill details and a revised summary description.

TIMELINE

The effective date in Section 4 was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000'. Note: The year 3000 appears to be a placeholder or error in the source text, as the original version stated 'upon approval'.

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 10, 2026

Committee

Referred to HHS/CPN, JDC.

upper

Mar 10, 2026

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 193).

upper

Mar 6, 2026

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Perruso, Quinlan, Sayama excused (3). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Mar 3, 2026

Lower · Passed

The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Grandinetti, Chun, Ilagan, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Lowen, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Pierick.

lower

Feb 18, 2026

Committee

Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 358-26) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.

lower

Feb 13, 2026

Lower · Passed

The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Hartsfield, Marten, Takenouchi; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Olds, Alcos, Garcia; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 30, 2026

Committee

Referred to HLT, CPC, referral sheet 5

lower

Jan 28, 2026

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 26, 2026

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

21 primary · 1 co-sponsor