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Apr. 5—The Hawaii Department of Health announced today it is resuming vital records requests in-person on Oahu after operating virtually throughout the. DOH has been processing birth, marriage ...
On December 10, 1990, three same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses at the Hawaii Department of Health. When denied licenses, the couples sue to have the prohibition on licenses for same-sex couples declared unconstitutional and discriminatory, resulting in Baehr v. Miike (originally Baehr v. Lewin). After the case was dismissed by the ...
Registration may be done only by mailing a notarized form to the state Department of Health in Honolulu, along with a fee (as of December 2006) of US$8.00. Termination of a reciprocal beneficiary relationship (which may be done by either party acting alone) is handled in the same way.
A July 2013 study conducted by the University of Hawaii estimated an additional $217 million in visitor spending over the following three years if Hawaii legalized same-sex marriage. [64] Analysis published in 2015 by NerdWallet estimated the annual economic impact of same-sex marriage in Hawaii at approximately $26.6 million. [65]
Jan. 1—New laws taking effect today include an increase in the state minimum wage to $14 an hour, gender-neutral language for birth and marriage certificates, and a requirement that Hawaii law ...
Dec. 1—In 1998, 69 % of Hawaii residents supported a constitutional amendment that marriage should be reserved only for opposite-sex genders. Today same-sex marriages have about 70 % support ...
Lawrence H. Miike, in his official capacity as Director of the Department of Health, State of Hawaii, Defendant-Appellant : Decided: December 9, 1999: Citation: Supreme Court of Hawaii No. 20371: Case history; Prior actions: Baehr v. Lewin, 74 Haw. 530, 852 P.2d 44 (1993), reconsideration and clarification granted in part, 74 Haw. 645, 852 P.2d ...
Hawaii's denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples was challenged in court in 1993. In 1994, the state enacted a statute banning same-sex marriage. [ 19 ] In November 1998, the voters of Hawaii voted 70 percent in favor of Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 , which amended the State Constitution to allow the State Legislature to ban same ...