2005 Legislative Alerts

Below are the issues in which HFF issued a legislative alert (call to action).

Bills are broken down into subject categories. 

Megan's Law

The House Judiciary Committee will decide March 15,2005 @ 2:00 p.m. whether or not to pass legislation for the purposes of 1) protecting children from registered sex offenders in their neighborhoods and 2) bringing Hawaii into conformance with federal sex offender registration requirements. HFF support the Attorney General’s (AG) version of Megan’s law to best protect Hawaii’s keiki from sex offenders.

(Click here for the March 17, 2005 alert)

(Click here for March 13, 2005 alert)

(Click here for March 8, 2005 alert)

(Click here for February 24, 2005 alert)

Religious Freedom

Bill to Create Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression as Protected Classes on Move in the Legislature. 

(Click here for the June 29, 2005 alert on the Governor's potential veto)

(Click here for the March 21, 2005 alert)

(Click here for February 24, 2005 alert) 

(Click here to view HFF testimony on HB 1715 for the February 24, 2005 hearing ) 

Physician Assisted Suicide (death with dignity)

Physician-Assisted Suicide bill dies in the House Health Committee.  Click here to read full story.

(Click here to view HFF testimony on HB 1454) (HFF Legal Issues on HB 1454)