HCR 154 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE, MANAGEMENT, AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION AND DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES REGARDING SPENDING RELATED TO THE PLANNING, DESIGN, FINANCING, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE OF A NEW JAIL TO REPLACE THE OAHU COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER.

HCR 154 is a resolution requesting the State Auditor to conduct an investigative audit of spending related to planning, design, financing, construction, and maintenance for a new jail replacing Hawaii's Oahu Community Correctional Center. It specifically targets expenditures by the Departments of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Accounting and General Services, including $25 million already spent on planning consultants and an estimated $1 billion total project cost. The audit aims to review all costs associated with the proposed replacement project, which would be Hawaii's largest public works project. This resolution does not fund or change the project but seeks transparency on taxpayer spending for the new facility.

Bill status in committee 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Mar 27, 2025

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HCR154 → HCR154_HD1 · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a Microsoft Word document structure to a clean legislative text format. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, though the audit request was expanded to include performance and management reviews in addition to financial auditing. The resolution timeline was updated to require the auditor's report by 20 days before the 2026 Regular Session, and new specific audit requirements were added regarding contractor lists and procurement compliance.

Scope change

The audit scope was expanded from a financial audit to include performance and management reviews, and specific audit requirements were added regarding contractor documentation and procurement compliance.

REQUIREMENT

The audit request was expanded from a comprehensive forensic audit to include performance, management, and financial audits of the Departments of Corrections and Accounting and General Services.

New specific audit requirements were added, including a review of accountability measures, analysis of budget expenditures against original purposes, examination of procurement law compliance, and a list of all contractors and subcontractors with duty dates.

New requirement added for the Departments to fully cooperate with the auditor and provide all necessary assistance and records during the audit process.

TIMELINE

The auditor's report deadline was updated to require submission no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2026.

TECHNICAL

The document was reformatted from a Microsoft Word template with metadata and page numbers to a clean legislative text format suitable for official publication.

Floor votes · House Mar 27, 2025

How they voted

47–0

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 51

Mar 27, 2025

D Democratic41

38 Yea 3

92% Yea

R Republican10

9 Yea 1

90% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with Representative(s) Souza voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Hashem, Hussey, Templo, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1598) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Mar 27, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (47-0-4)

house

Mar 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Iwamoto, Ichiyama, Poepoe, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Belatti, Souza; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Morikawa, Woodson.

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to PBS, FIN, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors