HB 1414 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Summary

Authorizes the head of a procurement agency to award a contract to a bidder who is not the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, for procurements conducted by competitive sealed bidding, if the head of the procuring agency determines that the award is most beneficial to taxpayers or otherwise in the best interests of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1414 → HB1414_HD1 · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a digital template format, but the substantive policy content remains unchanged. The only meaningful change is the effective date in Section 4, which was altered from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000' - likely an error or placeholder that should be corrected to a realistic date.

TIMELINE

Section 4 effective date changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000', which appears to be an error requiring correction to a valid future date.

TECHNICAL

Document structure changed from traditional legislative text format to a digital template format with metadata headers, but no substantive policy changes occurred.

Floor votes · House Mar 4, 2025

How they voted

44–4

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 51

Mar 4, 2025

D Democratic41

37 Yea 3 Nay 1

90% Yea

R Republican10

7 Yea 1 Nay 2

70% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to GVO, WAM.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 370).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran, Iwamoto, Perruso voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Amato, Kong, Lamosao, Souza voting no (4) and Representative(s) Kapela, Pierick, Ward excused (3). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors