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STATE OF HAWAII

On May 18, 2020, Governor David Ige unveiled the State of Hawaii's Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience plan. The plan is based on a continuum of four phases, beginning with Stabilization (Phase 1), then Reopening (Phase 2), then Long-Term Recovery (Phase 3), and finally Resilience (Phase 4).

The Governor's prior orders, namely the "Stay at Home" order and "Safer at Home" order, were part of the Stabilization phase of the plan. Governor Ige announced that Hawaii's progress in battling the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak warrants moving into Phase 2: Reopening in June.

In the Act with Care phase (described in the Eighth Supplementary Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Emergency
"Eighth Proclamation")), "medium risk" businesses will be reopened, followed by "high-risk businesses." A breakdown of those businesses and how and when they may reopen is described on this slide of the Governor's presentation.

Governor Ige explained that each county Mayor, in consultation with him and his staff, will determine the details and timing of the reopening phase in their counties. The plan requires that each step in the phase have a minimum 14-day observation period in order to assess the impact of the reopening measures. If a disease spike occurs, the State may move backward on the continuum of phases.

In the Eighth Proclamation, Governor Ige extended the Mandatory Self-Quarantine Order (described below) through the end of July. He also extended the moratorium on eviction for non-payment of rent through the end of July.

The Governor's full May 18, 2020 slide presentation is available here.

Through the Tenth Proclamation (see below), Governor Ige extended the Emergency Relief period through August 31, 2020. And through the Twelfth Proclamation (see below), Governor Ige further extended the Emergency Relief period through September 30, 2020.

Act with Care Order

Order. Everyone in Hawaii is generally under an order by the Governor to stay in their homes or place of residence (e.g., apartment or hotel room) through August 31, 2020. This does not impact federal critical infrastructure sectors. Essential businesses have been permitted to operate and may continue to do so. Essential businesses and activities include: health-care services; grocery stores and pharmacies; food, beverage and cannabis production and farming; public and private schools; charitable organizations; media; gas stations and transportation businesses; financial institutions; hardware and supply stores; critical construction trades; mail and shipping services; laundry services; restaurants offering take-out services; businesses that provide supplies for essential businesses or for people to work at home; transportation; home-based care and services; residential facilities and shelters; professional services, including legal services; child care services; manufacture, distribution and supply chain for critical products and industries; hotels, to the extent used for lodging and delivery or carry-out food services; funeral services; and government functions. Beginning on May 7, 2020 (with certain specific county exceptions), certain designated businesses and operations were allowed to reopen and remain open for the duration of the emergency period provided they comply with social distancing requirements; those businesses included agriculture (non-food) such as landscape, ornamental plant growers, and nurseries; auto dealerships; car washes; pet grooming services; observatories and support facilities; retail and repair services; and shopping malls (although some areas are to remain closed or restricted). In addition to social distancing requirements, guidelines are provided for health and safety of employees and customers.
Permitted Activities Outside the Residence. Residents can leave their homes for a variety of activities: travel for health and safety; travel to obtain goods or services from essential and designated businesses; travel to maintain basic operations of non-essential businesses; travel to care for elderly, minors, dependents or the disabled; travel required by law enforcement; outdoor exercise activities including ocean activities provided social distancing requirements are met; and walking pets on a leash.
Prohibited Activities Outside the Residence. Gatherings of more than 10 people are generally prohibited. All places of public gathering, indoor and outdoor, are closed to the public, including: fitness centers, gyms, carnivals, water parks, aquariums, zoos, museums, playgrounds, movie theaters, concert halls and social clubs. Beaches are closed by this order; however, each county may or has made exceptions to this provision.
Social Distancing Requirements. Everyone at an essential or designated business or conducting permitted activities outside of one's residence must maintain a minimum distance of six (6) feet from others. Businesses that are permitted to be open are required to enforce social distance parameters and provide hand sanitizer products. Both customers and those employees who have contact with customers are required to wear cloth face coverings.
Penalty for Non-Compliance. Failure to comply with the order is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine up to $5,000, or up to a year in jail, or both.

Mandatory Self-Quarantine Order

Through the end of September, all individuals, both residents and visitors, arriving or returning to the State of Hawaii must self-quarantine for 14 days. Limited exceptions apply for those traveling to perform critical infrastructure functions.
Failure to comply with the mandatory self-quarantine is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine up to $5,000, or up to a year in jail, or both.

Emergency Proclamations by Governor David Ige:

Emergency Proclamation for COVID-19, March 5, 2020 (declaring an Emergency Period, effective through April 29, 2020).
Supplementary Proclamation for COVID-19, March 16, 2020 (extending Emergency Period through May 15, 2020).
Second Supplementary Proclamation for COVID-10, March 21, 2020 (imposing mandatory 14-day self-quarantine for all persons entering Hawaii and extending Emergency Period through May 20, 2020).
Third Supplementary Proclamation for COVID-19, March 23, 2020 (imposing stay-at-home order, defining essential business and activities, delineating permitted activities outside the home, and imposing social distancing requirements).
Fourth Supplementary Proclamation for COVID-19, March 21, 2020 (extending mandatory self-quarantine requirements to intra-island travelers).
Fifth Supplementary Proclamation for COVID-19, April 17, 2020 (requiring use of face-coverings (except for people exercising and maintaining social distance), closing beaches (except to transit to the ocean), limiting boating activities, limiting hiking activities, limiting fishing activities, encouraging use of face coverings; closing beaches; imposing restrictions on boating; reinforcing social distancing requirements; imposing various requirements for operations of essential businesses; and suspending evictions for failure to pay rent).
Sixth Supplementary Proclamation Amending and Restating Prior Proclamations and Executive Orders Relating to the COVID-19 Emergency, April 25, 2020 (amending and restating prior orders, requiring county mayors to obtain approval of Governor Ige or the Director of Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for emergency proclamations, invoking emergency management laws, extending stay-at-home order through May 31, 2020, permitting ocean and shore use for ocean activities and exercise provided that social distancing requirements are maintained, extending mandatory quarantine for travelers (international, from the mainland and inter-island through May 31, 2020, and suspending certain laws).
Seventh Supplementary Proclamation for COVID-19, May 5, 2020 ("Safer-at-Home Order").
Eighth Supplementary Proclamation Related to COVID-19, May 18, 2020 ("Act with Care Order").
Ninth Supplementary Proclamation Related to COVID-19, June 10, 2020 (extending the Act with Care Order until July 31, 2020 and ending quarantine requirement for intra-island travel as of June 16, 2020).
Tenth Supplementary Proclamation Related to COVID-19, July 17, 2020 (extending the Act with Care Order until August 31, 2020).
Eleventh Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Emergency Interisland Travel Quarantine, August 7, 2020 (implementing a 14-day quarantine for all individuals traveling between from Oahu to the other Hawaiian islands, beginning on August 11, 2020 and ending on August 31, 2020).
Twelfth Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Emergency, August 20, 2020.

To understand the status of the reopening process in each county of Hawaii and specific restrictions for each business and activity, please refer to the latest proclamation or order from the county Mayors, which are set forth below.

CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU

Emergency Orders by Mayor Kirk Caldwell:

Proclamation COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus], March 4, 2020 (declaring state of emergency)
Supplemental Proclamation of Emergency or Disaster (COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus]), March 18, 2020 (declaring state of emergency, closing bars for 15 days, closing restaurants except for takeout for 15 days, closing city facilities for public gatherings, requiring events to follow CDC guidelines and limiting city services).
Emergency Order No. 2020-01, March 20, 2020 (order closing bars and restaurants and limiting public gatherings to requirements set by the CDC).
Rules of the Mayor, March 20, 2020 (defining terms used in emergency orders).
Emergency Order No. 2020-02, March 22, 2020 (imposing stay-at-home order, except for those engaged in essential businesses; limiting public gatherings; limiting travel except for travel for essential activities).
Emergency Order No. 2020-03, March 31, 2020 (order requiring golf courses, tennis clubs and other sports facilities to cease operations).
Letter to the President, April 1, 2020 (letter from Honolulu Mayor Caldwell, Maui Mayor Victorino and Kauai Mayor Kawakami requesting that President Trump ban all non-essential travel to the State of Hawaii until April 30, 2020).
Emergency Order No. 2020-04, April 2, 2020 (order deeming automobile sales as essential business).
Emergency Order No. 2020-05, April 9, 2020 (implementing curfew on weekends from 11 PM to 5 AM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, with exceptions).
Emergency Order No. 2020-06, April 13, 2020 (order deeming fabric stores as essential businesses)
Emergency Order No. 2020-07, April 14, 2020 (requiring the use of face-coverings when interacting with customers at essential businesses and riding on public transit, except for certain situations).
Stay at Home Order Guidance Bulletin, April 20, 2020 (addressing status of short-term rentals, auto detailers, music lessons, religious gatherings, fabric stores, professional services and essential businesses).
Emergency Order No. 2020-08, April 22, 2020 (opening city parks for limited purposes).
Emergency Order No 2020-09, April 29, 2020 (amended and restated stay at home and work from home order, which rescinds Emergency Order Nos. 2020-01 to 2020-08; this order is effective through 4:30 PM on May 18, 2020).
Emergency Order No. 2020-10, May 6, 2020 (second amended and restated stay at home/work from home order).
Second Supplemental Proclamation (COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus]), May 6, 2020 (extending the state of emergency or disaster period until July 17, 2020).
Guidance Bulletin for Emergency Order No. 2020-10, May 8, 2020 (defining terms within Emergency Order No. 2020-10).
Emergency Order No. 2020-11, May 13, 2020 ("Restore Honolulu 2.0" order, amending and restating stay at home/work from home order, effective from May 13, 2020 through June 30, 2020).
Emergency Order No. 2020-12, May 15, 2020 (amending Restore Honolulu 2.0 order to open Oahu's beaches as of May 16, 2020).
Emergency Order No. 2020-13, May 21, 2020 (second amendment of Restore Honolulu 2.0 order, allowing restaurants to reopen for dine-in service with restrictions as of June 5, 2020).
Emergency Order No. 2020-14, May 28, 2020 ("Restore Honolulu 3.0").
Emergency Order No. 2020-15, June 3, 2020 (Amendment to "Restore Honolulu 3.0").
Guidance Bulletin for Order No. 2020-15, June 15, 2020.
Third Supplemental Proclamation of Emergency or Disaster (COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus]), June 24, 2020 (extending state of emergency through the end of July).
Emergency Order No. 2020-16, June 24, 2020 (Second Amendment to "Restore Honolulu 3.0").
Emergency Order No. 2020-17, June 27, 2020 ("Restore Honolulu 4.0").
Emergency Order No. 2020-18, July 2, 2020 (amendment to Restore Honolulu 4.0).
Emergency Order No. 2020-19, July 14, 2020 (second amendment to Restore Honolulu 4.0 relating to mask use in public spaces and new rules for liquor sales).
Emergency Order No. 2020-20, July 23, 2020 (third amendment to Restore Honolulu 4.0 relating to face coverings while in gyms).
Emergency Order No. 2020-21, July 29, 2020 ("Restore Honolulu 5.0").
Fourth Supplemental Proclamation of Emergency or Disaster (COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus]), July 29, 2020 (extending state of emergency through the end of August).
Emergency Order No. 2020-22, July 29, 2020 (amending Restore Honolulu 5.0 to limit gatherings to 10 people, whether outdoor or indoor, and to require the use of masks in all public places with limited exceptions).
Mayor’s Fifth Supplemental Proclamation of Emergency or Disaster (COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus]), August 7, 2020 (extending state of emergency through the end of September).
Emergency Order No. 2020-23, August 7, 2020 (closing all city and state parks on Oahu, beginning on August 8 and ending on September 4, 2020).
Emergency Order No. 2020-24, August 19, 2020 ("Act Now Honolulu - No social gatherings").
Emergency Order No. 2020-25, August 25, 2020 ("Second Stay at Home/ Work from Home order").
Guidance Bulletin for Emergency Order No. 2020-25, August 28, 2020.