Comprise for Senate CIP Bill?

By /

House and Senate conferees, including the chairs of Ways and Means and Finance, held a quick meeting on House Bill 2145, the reincarnation of Senate Bill 2012, the Senate’s plan to issue $500 million in bonds to fund capital improvement projects.

The bill had seemed dead until the House agreed Thursday (April 26) to appoint conferees.

Rep. Sharon Har said the House was still reviewing HB 2145 but also had a new draft for the Senate’s consideration. Sen. Ron Kouchi said both sides had made “considerable progress” in the last 24 hours.

The mood seemed hopeful, and Marcus Oshiro, though clearly exhausted, was cracking jokes. The conferees will reconvene at 4 p.m. on HB 2145, in the same room where they are set to take up HB 2012, the budget and CIP bill.

 Is there now an end in sight to the Senate-House standoff?


What it means to support Civil Beat.

Supporting Civil Beat means you’re investing in a newsroom that can devote months to investigate corruption. It means we can cover vulnerable, overlooked communities because those stories matter. And, it means we serve you. And only you.

Donate today and help sustain the kind of journalism Hawaiʻi cannot afford to lose.

Donate

About the Author