HI HB 2445
died on adjournmentRELATING TO STUDENT SAFETY.
Hawaii · 2026 Regular Session · lower
Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.
Quick answers
Did HI HB 2445 pass?
No. HI HB 2445 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-02-19): The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
What is HI HB 2445 about?
Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and implement a standardized emergency response plan governing immigration enforcement activity at or within one thousand feet of public schools and adopt policies and procedures to address immigration enforcement activity at certain school-related location and events. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Who sponsors HI HB 2445?
TEMPLO, AMATO, BELATTI and 9 others are the primary sponsors of HI HB 2445.
Description
Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and implement a standardized emergency response plan governing immigration enforcement activity at or within one thousand feet of public schools and adopt policies and procedures to address immigration enforcement activity at certain school-related location and events. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
- Introduced
- 2026-01-28
- Latest action
- 2026-02-19 — The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- TEMPLOprimary
- AMATOprimary
- BELATTIprimary
- IWAMOTOprimary
- KITAGAWAprimary
- KUSCHprimary
- MARTENprimary
- MATAYOSHIprimary
- PERRUSOprimary
- POEPOEprimary
- TAKENOUCHIprimary
- TAMprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-02-19
The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
deferral
2026-02-17
Bill scheduled to be heard by EDN on Thursday, 02-19-26 2:00PM in House conference room 309 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2026-02-11
Reported from ECD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 149-26) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to EDN.
2026-02-11
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on EDN with Representative(s) Gedeon, Matsumoto, Shimizu voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Muraoka, Pierick voting no (4) and Representative(s) Holt excused (1).
reading-2,referral-committee
2026-02-06
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Yamashita, Gedeon; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-02
Referred to ECD, EDN, JHA, referral sheet 6
referral-committee
2026-02-02
Bill scheduled to be heard by ECD on Friday, 02-06-26 8:30AM in House conference room 423 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2026-01-28
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
introduction,reading-1
2026-01-27
Pending introduction.
Versions
Documents
Votes
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS.
2026-02-06 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Ilagan: yes
- Hussey: yes
- Holt: yes
- Tam: yes
- Templo: yes
- Yamashita: yes
- Gedeon: yes
Related bills
No related bills recorded for this bill.
Official source
Attribution
Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:20:09.051962Z
Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:
Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:
Use this data
Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=HI&identifier=HB 2445. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.
Known limitations
- Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
- Committee referrals are not yet captured.
See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.