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HR97Introduced in the House

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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Introduced by Sean Quinlan, District 47

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Official description

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.

Where it stands

Resolution adopted in final form.

April 9, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

No recorded vote is available for this bill yet.

Bill 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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