SB 1246 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Summary

Directs the Department of Health to purchase and store a 1 year supply of mifepristone by working with 1 or more pharmacies in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Feb 11, 2025

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SB1246 → SB1246_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill was converted from a Senate bill (SB) to a Senate committee draft (SD1), primarily changing the effective date from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2050. The substantive policy content regarding reproductive health care, mifepristone stockpiling, and funding remains unchanged. The document also shifted from a clean legislative text format to include metadata headers and formatting artifacts typical of legislative tracking systems.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2050, which appears to be a placeholder or clerical error rather than an intentional policy change.

TECHNICAL

The document format changed from a clean legislative bill to include metadata headers, timestamps, and tracking information typical of legislative drafting systems.

Section 1 text was reformatted with different character encoding but contains the same substantive language regarding reproductive rights and privacy.

The description field was updated to include the effective date and SD1 designation, clarifying this is a committee draft version.

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Committee

Feb 11, 2025

Committee

Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 274) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Jan 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.

upper

Jan 28, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 01-31-25 1:34PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to HHS, WAM.

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and passed First Reading.

upper

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Pending Introduction.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors