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HR97HIPassed 2026 Regular Session

Requesting The Hawaii State Center For Nursing To Compile A Comprehensive List Of Recommended Safe Patient Staffing Ratios For All Nursing Specialties And Subspecialities Across All Health Care Settings, And To Maintain A Repository For This Information.

Last status update Apr 9, 2026

What this measure contains

Requesting The Hawaii State Center For Nursing To Compile A Comprehensive List Of Recommended Safe Patient Staffing Ratios For All Nursing Specialties And Subspecialities Across All Health Care Settings, And To Maintain A Repository For This Information.

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Related measures

  • HCR105— Same As
  • SR112— Same As

Related measures may contain different language or follow different histories.

How this measure moved

Legislative path

Each stage below is a recorded decision from the official measure history, attached to the draft it considered. A member's row follows their votes from the first draft to the latest, and a highlighted vote marks where it changed. Committee and conference votes list every member by name. Floor votes list only exceptions; members serving that day who aren't named are shown as ayes in a dashed outline.

  1. Introduced
  2. HD1by HLT

Companion measures: HCR105, SR112. A companion follows its own path; its votes are not combined with this one.

Decision stages

  1. House HLT committee on the introduced draft: Passed, with amendments, reported as HD1

    9 aye · 0 no · 0 excused

  2. House report adoption on HD1: Report adopted

    50 aye · 0 no · 0 excused

  3. House FIN committee on HD1: Passed, unamended

    15 aye · 0 no · 1 excused

  4. House floor on HD1: Passed

    49 aye · 0 no · 1 excused

House members along the path

House members' votes at each stage of HR97
MemberHLT
Introduced		Report adoption
HD1		FIN
HD1		Floor
HD1		Change along the path
David AlcosHD-041AyeAyeAyeAye
Terez AmatoHD-011AyeAyeAye
Elle CochranHD-014AyeExcused
Diamond GarciaHD-042AyeAyeAye
Joe GedeonHD-018AyeAyeAye
Daisy HartsfieldHD-036AyeAyeAyeAye
Ikaika HusseyHD-029AyeAyeAye
Sue Keohokapu-Lee LoyHD-002AyeAyeAyeAye
Lisa KitagawaHD-048AyeAyeAye
Matthias KuschHD-001AyeAyeAye
Mike LeeHD-050AyeAyeAye
Lisa MartenHD-051AyeAyeAye
Tyson MiyakeHD-010AyeAyeAye
Daynette MorikawaHD-017AyeExcusedAye
Ikaika OldsHD-023AyeAyeAye
Amy PerrusoHD-046AyeAyeAye
Julie Reyes OdaHD-040AyeAyeAye
Gregg TakayamaHD-034AyeAyeAye
Jenna TakenouchiHD-027AyeAyeAyeAye
Shirley Ann TemploHD-030AyeAyeAye
Chris ToddHD-003AyeAyeAye
Kyle YamashitaHD-012AyeAyeAye
28 more House members only counted as floor ayes
MemberHLT
Introduced		Report adoption
HD1		FIN
HD1		Floor
HD1		Change along the path
Della au BelattiHD-026AyeAye
Cory ChunHD-035AyeAye
Luke EvslinHD-016AyeAye
Andrew GarrettHD-022AyeAye
Tina GrandinettiHD-020AyeAye
Mark HashemHD-019AyeAye
Linda IchiyamaHD-031AyeAye
Greggor IlaganHD-004AyeAye
Kim IwamotoHD-025AyeAye
Kirstin KahaloaHD-006AyeAye
Jeanne KapelaHD-005AyeAye
Darius KilaHD-044AyeAye
Sam KongHD-033AyeAye
Trish La ChicaHD-037AyeAye
Nicole LowenHD-007AyeAye
Scot MatayoshiHD-049AyeAye
Lauren MatsumotoHD-038AyeAye
Chris MuraokaHD-045AyeAye
Nadine NakamuraHD-015AyeAye
Elijah PierickHD-039AyeAye
Mahina PoepoeHD-013AyeAye
Sean QuinlanHD-047AyeAye
Jackson SayamaHD-021AyeAye
Garner ShimizuHD-032AyeAye
Kanani SouzaHD-043AyeAye
Adrian TamHD-024AyeAye
David TarnasHD-008AyeAye
Justin WoodsonHD-009AyeAye

Aye named · Aye* with reservations · Aye floor vote, not named as an exception · No · Excused · Changed reversed from the previous vote

Names are matched to legislators only when exactly one person fits; every printed name on this measure was matched. A missing vote means no record was found for that member at that stage, not a no vote. Committee codes follow the Legislature's abbreviations.Official measure history ↗

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Legislative history

  1. Offered

  2. Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 19

  3. Resolution scheduled to be heard by HLT on Wednesday, 03-25-26 9:30AM in conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  4. 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, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

  5. Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1593-26) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to FIN.

  6. Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).

  7. Scheduled for decision making on Tuesday, 04-07-26 10:05AM in conference room 308 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  8. The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Todd, Takenouchi, Hartsfield, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lee, M., Miyake, Perruso, Templo, Yamashita, Alcos, Gedeon, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Morikawa.

  9. Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1955-26), recommending adoption.

  10. Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1).

  11. Resolution adopted in final form.

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