The Hawaiʻi Session Laws is a massive collection housed at the State Archives. Punawaiola presents the following comprehensive list which spans nearly a century, from 1843 to 2005. There are a total of 147 files and 55,830 images. The original session laws may be found using this call number: KFH 25 .A24.
“Session Laws” is a uniform title applied to the enactments of the law-making entities of the Kingdom, Provisional Government, Republic, Territorial, and state governments. Typically, the English versions of individual enactments in session laws are titled “law,” “statute” or “act,” and are compiled and issued in chronological order, with or without an index.
Variations in title and name of the issuing body characterize session laws in the pre-statehood period. For example, the first volume of session laws included in this database is entitled, "The Laws and Resolutions Passed at the Annual Council of the Hawaiian Nobles and Representatives Convened according to the Constitution, at Lahaina, April, 1843." In contrast, a volume issued during the Territorial period is entitled, "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Legislature at Its Special Session, 1909."
Issuing bodies for these are variously named:
- Legislative Council (1841-1863) from the House of Nobles and the House of Representatives
- Legislative Assembly (1864-1892)
- Executive and Advisory Councils, Provisional Government (1893-1894)
- Executive and Advisory Councils, Republic (1895)
- Legislative Assembly, Special Session, Republic (1895)
- Legislature, Republic (1896-1900)
- Legislature, Territory (1901-1959)
- Legislature, State (1959-current)
Links to current and archived session laws (back to 1999) are available at: Hawaiʻi State Legislature Archives
Please click on the following links to access this digitized collection.
Session Laws by Decade:-
- Na Kanawai O Ko Hawaii, 1842
- Laws and Resolutions, 1843
- Supplement to Laws, 1848
- Ka Hope Kanawai, 1848
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- Laws of His Majesty, 1851
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1851
- Constitution and Laws, 1852
- He Kumukanawai a me Na Kanawai, 1852
- Laws of His Majesty, 1853
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1853
- Laws of His Majesty, 1854
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1854
- Laws of His Majesty, 1855
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1855
- Laws of His Majesty, 1856
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1856
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- Laws of His Majesty, 1860
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1860
- Laws of His Majesty, 1862
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1862
- Laws of His Majesty, 1865
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1865
- Laws of His Majesty, 1866-67
- Laws of His Majesty, 1868
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1868
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- Laws of His Majesty, 1870
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1870
- Laws of his Majesty, 1872
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1872
- Laws of His Majesty, 1874
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1874
- Laws of His Majesty, 1876
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1876
- Laws of His Majesty, 1878
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1878
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- Laws of His Majesty, 1880
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1880
- Laws of His Majesty, 1882
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1882
- Laws of His Majesty, 1884
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1884
- Laws of His Majesty, 1886
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1886
- Laws of His Majesty, 1887
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1887
- Laws of His Majesty, 1888
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1888
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- Laws of His Majesty, 1890
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1890
- Laws of Her Majesty, 1892
- Kanawai o ka Moi, 1892
- Laws of the Provisional Government, Acts 1-42, 1893 (**Related Document of Historical Interest** Proclamation Establishing a Provisional Government at the Hawaiian Islands, 1893, (see Kahn - Laws page)
- Na Kanawai o Ke Aupuni Kuikawa, Kanawai 1-42, 1893
- Laws of the Provisional Government, Acts 1-86, 1894
- Na Kanawai o Ke Aupuni Kuikawa, Kanawai 1-86, 1894
- The Militia Law of the Republic of Hawaii, 1895, 20/17 (see Kahn - Laws page)
- Constitution and Laws of the Republic of Hawaii, 1895
- Kumukanawai a me Na Kanawai o ka Repubalika o Hawaii, 1895
- Laws of the Republic of Hawaii, 1895
- Kanawai o ka Repubalika o Hawaii, 1895
- Laws of the Republic of Hawaii, 1896
- Kanawai o ka Repubalika o Hawaii, 1896
- Laws of the Republic of Hawaii, 1898
- Kanawai o ka Repubalika o Hawaii, 1898
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- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1901
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1903
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1904
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1905
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1907
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1909
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii at its Special Session, 1909
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- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1911
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1913
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1915
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1917
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1918
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- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1920
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1921
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1923
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1925
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1927
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1929
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- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1931
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1932
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1933
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1935
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1937
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1939
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- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1943
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1945
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1947
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1949
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- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1950
- 1952 Regular Session Laws, 1951
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1953
- Special Session Laws, 1954
- Regular Session Laws, 1955
- Special Session Laws, 1956
- Regular Session Laws, 1957
- Laws of the Territory of Hawaii, 1959
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Second Special Session, 1959
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- Session Laws of Hawaii, Special Session, 1960
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1961
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1962
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1963
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1964
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1966
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1967
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1968
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1969
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- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1970
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1971
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1972
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1973
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and Special Session, 1974
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1975
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1976
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and First Special Session , 1977
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1978
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1979
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- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1980
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and First Special Session, 1981
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1982
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, Volume I, 1983
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, Volume II, 1983
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1985
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1986
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Special Session 1986, Regular Session, 1987
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1987
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and Special Session, 1988
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1989
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- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1990
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and Special Session, 1991
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1992
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1993
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session 1993, Special Session, 1994
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and Special Session, 1995
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1996
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 1997
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- Session Laws of Hawaii, Second Special Session 2000, Regular, Special, and Second Special Session, 2001
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Third Special Session 2001, Regular Session, 2002
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and Special Session, 2003
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session, 2004
- Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular and Special Session, 2005