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Joint House–Senate conference committees adopt several CDs, roll over others to April 25
Summary
Conference committees met April 24 in Room 16 at the Hawaii State Capitol, adopting conference drafts for several bills (including measures on qualified community rehab programs, public-employment cost items and wage-and-hour enforcement) and rolling multiple other measures to April 25 while awaiting financial releases or updated CDs.
Conference committees of the Hawaii Legislature met Thursday, April 24, in Conference Room 16 and recorded votes adopting conference drafts (CDs) on multiple measures while postponing others pending financial clearances and updated language.
The committees approved conference drafts on a mix of employment, procurement and wage-enforcement bills and formally recorded outcomes on several measures. Committee leaders repeatedly paused or recessed to await finance or WAM (Ways and Means) releases and to obtain absent conferees, then scheduled follow-up sessions for April 25.
The votes finalized or advanced bills that conferees described on the floor, including a limit on aggregated personal service contracts with qualified community rehabilitation programs, several collective‑bargaining cost‑item appropriations, and a wage‑and‑hour enforcement bill that creates an order process and penalties by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Conferees also adopted CDs on multiple bills presented as…
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