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House Finance Committee advances HB1800 with amendments after reading dozens of line-item changes
Summary
The House Committee on Finance advanced HB1800 on March 11, 2026 after reading agency adjustments and green‑fee items, consolidating several monitoring appropriations and approving personnel and program funding changes; the motion passed with 13 recorded yes votes and three reservations.
The House Committee on Finance on Wednesday advanced HB1800, the executive supplemental operating budget, after a line‑by‑line reading of dozens of department adjustments, green‑fee projects and technical transfers.
Chair Todd, who opened the meeting, said the draft "prioritizes maintaining our current services while making some additional investments" and framed the package as largely aligned with administration priorities while leaving room for negotiation with the Senate and the governor's office.
Committee members read and discussed modifications across many departments. Highlights included a technical modification to make $1 million in animal quarantine special funds nonrecurring and new general‑fund adjustments for agricultural trade shows and in‑vessel composters. The committee approved transferring a small broadband and digital equity office into Accounting & General Services (AGS820) and moved three temporary positions and roughly $360,000 in general funds for FY26–27 to that program ID.
Budget & Finance (BUFF 101) sequences were amended to reflect repeated green‑fee reductions of $14,500,000 in conjunction with a green‑fee distribution; the committee also consolidated three separate $500,000 green‑fee monitoring appropriations into a single $500,000 monitoring and evaluation line. The Department of Health received changed funding and position transfers tied to behavioral‑health and certified community behavioral health centers; the committee modified overtime and psychiatric bed funding, making some amounts recurring and other items nonrecurring as read into the record.
The committee also read substantial Lands & Natural Resources green‑fee projects—reef and coral restoration, ocean monitoring, fish‑pond and community marine programs—ranging from six‑figure to multi‑million dollar appropriations that the House concurred with in the reading.
On procedural matters, the committee set a defective/effective date placeholder of July 1, 3000 for the measure and read a long set of technical position and funding redescriptions across taxation, transportation and corrections. Chair Todd noted uncertainty about whether some expenses (for example costs tied to federal programs such as SNAP and Medicaid) will be recurring and emphasized the House's desire to maintain life‑safety programs while negotiating the final package.
Decision and vote: the committee recommended HB1800 "to pass with amendments." The roll‑call style confirmation recorded Chair Todd and Vice Chair Taki Nuji voting yes; in total the committee recorded 13 yes votes and three members registering "reservations," which the committee clerk recorded as reservations during the decision‑making. The recommendations were adopted.
What happens next: Committee members said the package will move into further discussions with the Senate and the administration, where amounts and some redirections may be reworked before final passage.
