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Bill	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR CONSTRUCTION DEFECT REMEDIATION AT THE HAWAII STATE HOSPITAL.	Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Health to fund construction defect remediation of the Hale Hoʻola Building at the Hawaii State Hospital, including the payment of legal fees and costs for special deputy attorneys general. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2024-2025 has been exceeded. (HD2)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2025	SB 1448	Hawaii SB 1448 (2025)	bill	Construction Defect Remediation DOH Emergency Appropriation Expenditure Ceiling Hawaii State Hospital	enacted	KOUCHI	5	37	5	2025-01-21	2025-05-14	openstates	ocd-bill/eaa5eea3-74f8-4731-80f4-8130556043c2	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=1448&year=2025	b21ecf8ca5013e74ed40b4dd78a530bbde0c745ce6871a1fafc49820c6dbf6af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 1448 (2025) — MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR CONSTRUCTION DEFECT REMEDIATION AT THE HAWAII STATE HOSPITAL.

Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Health to fund construction defect remediation of the Hale Hoʻola Building at the Hawaii State Hospital, including the payment of legal fees and costs for special deputy attorneys general. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2024-2025 has been exceeded. (HD2)

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. SB1448 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB1448_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB1448_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1448_SD1 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1448_SD2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsider: The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider: Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). — 25–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• KOUCHI — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-05-14 Act 044, on 05/14/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). became-law
• 2025-05-14 Act 044, 05/14/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). became-law
• 2025-05-02 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01 Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 888). receipt
• 2025-04-30 Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . 0 No(es): none. 0 Excused: none. passage
• 2025-04-29 Received notice of reconsideration and Senate agreement (Sen. Com. No. 885). receipt
• 2025-04-25 One Day Notice 04-30-25
• 2025-04-25 Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 04-30-25.
• 2025-04-25 Reconsideration of action taken on 04-10-25 in disagreeing to the House amendments.
• 2025-04-10 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 779). receipt
• 2025-04-10 Senate disagrees with House amendments. amendment-failure
• 2025-04-10 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 691). introduction, receipt
• 2025-04-08 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Muraoka, Pierick voting no (3) and Representative(s) Cochran, Marten excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2025-04-04 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 04-08-25.
• 2025-04-04 Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2005) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2025-03-28 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Alcos; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Hussey, Ward. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Friday, 03-28-25 2:00PM in House conference room 308 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-03-18 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Muraoka, Pierick voting no (3) and Representative(s) Cochran, Ward excused (2). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1308) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
• 2025-03-12 The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Bill scheduled to be heard by HLT on Wednesday, 03-12-25 9:00AM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2025-03-06 Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 19 referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-04 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 340) in amended form (SD 2). introduction, receipt
• 2025-03-04 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2025-02-28 48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25.
• 2025-02-28 Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 999) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
• 2025-02-27 The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WAM were as follows: 13 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Moriwaki, Aquino, DeCoite, Elefante, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Kim, Lee, C., Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-27-25 10:30AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference.
• 2025-02-11 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 270) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
• 2025-02-10 Received from Governor re: Recommended for Immediate Passage (Gov. Msg. No. 3). receipt
• 2025-02-03 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-01-31 The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 02-03-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.
• 2025-01-27 Referred to HHS, WAM. referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Introduced and passed First Reading. introduction
• 2025-01-21 Pending Introduction.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eaa5eea3-74f8-4731-80f4-8130556043c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).