Senate Standing Committee on Labor and Technology

Aloha and great afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Senate Committee on Labor and Technology. Before we begin, if we can just have a moment of silence to honor the late Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa, who was also our state Senate foreign former state Senate President for many years. Moment of silence, please.

Thank you and our thoughts and prayers to the Hanabusa family. Today is March 62026. We're in conference room 225. This hearing is also being streamed on the Hawaii State Senate's YouTube channel. Just a few housekeeping announcements in the unlikely case of technical failures.

This meeting will reconvene here in Conference Room 225 on March 112026 at 3:00pm for all testifiers, including those on Zoom. We ask that you stand on your written testimony. If your all testimony is different from your written testimony, the time limit for each testifier will be one minute.

The content, including the hearing notice and copies of the measures and testimony can be found on the legislature's website. If time permits, decision making will occur after you hear from those offering testimony. And I'd like to welcome our vice chair, Senator Lamosao and Senator Morikawa for joining us today. Senator Ihara and Fevela are excused.