As Covid-19 Emergency Ends, Hawaii Lawmakers Consider Limits On Executive Power…Two measures that would give lawmakers the authority to end the governor’s emergency proclamations have advanced to their final committees in the House and Senate.
Hawaii’s Covid-19 state of emergency will soon be over.
Come Friday at midnight, the state will drop the last of its pandemic mandates, a requirement to wear masks when indoors. That will also mark the end of emergency proclamations related to Covid-19 more than two years after Gov. David Ige issued his first proclamation in the islands as the Covid-19 pandemic spread around the world.
And as the state of emergency finally comes to an end, Hawaii lawmakers are weighing bills that could limit the governor’s emergency powers in the future.
