US state regulation
Hawaii
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Hawaii - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 34/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 3 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 3
- Categories regulated
- 1/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 3 enacted · 1/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Hawaii sits in the lower tracker-score band - 3 enacted regulations across 1 of 5 tracked policy areas, with a portal tracker score of 34/100, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 34/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 3
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 3
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Hawaii legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Hawaii's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 3 Tracked rows in archive
- 3 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 34/100 Portal tracker score
- #19 Of 51 by volume
- #21 Of 51 by tracker score
- District Nearest volume peer 3 rows
- 1 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Hawaii's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Hawaii is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Hawaii enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 1 in 2018
Policy coverage
Hawaii enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Hawaii's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Hawaii regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Hawaii's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Hawaii's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
62/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 3 tracked
69th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- C 34/100
65th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- D 1 categories
45th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Hawaii Minimum Wage Law
HRS 387-2 Effective: 2026-01-01Hawaii minimum wage $16.00/hr (2024), $18.00/hr from Jan 2026. Schedule to $18/hr passed 2022.
Hawaii Pay Transparency Law
SB 1057 Effective: 2024-01-01Pay range for 50+ employee employers.
Hawaii Salary History Ban
SB 2351 Effective: 2019-01-01Hawaii prohibits salary history inquiries. Requires employers to state pay scale if requested.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Hawaii
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Hawaii (LIGHT · LOWER · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT LOWER QUIET WORKER-LED
District of Columbia · LIGHT
District of Columbia tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Hawaii); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Tennessee · LIGHT
Tennessee tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Hawaii); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Florida · LIGHT
Florida tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Hawaii); tracker stamp MID vs LOWER.
Maryland · LIGHT
Maryland tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Hawaii); tracker stamp MID vs LOWER.
Texas (MID score pole)
Texas sits near Hawaii on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps LOWER.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Hawaii's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (3 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Hawaii state-rule registry · 2023 Hawaii: 3 tracked · 3 enacted · tracker 34/100 (LIGHT/LOWER). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Hawaii's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.