Conference Committee

Okay, Senator. Please.

Good morning, and aloha. This is the conference committee on Monday's agenda, April 27, 2026 in Room 329. And the conference committee for SB 3156 house draft one relating to the federal military, installations. And for the Senate conferees, myself, Senator Inouye as Chair, Co-Chairs Rhoads, Kanuha, and Member Elefante.

Thank you, Senator. Morning. We have myself, representative Morikawa, representative Kikalog survey as co chairs with me, and member Mora Boca for this one. We have the CD1, and we're just leading for Ben and Lambert.

Right. And and just for the record, SB3156, the description authorizes DOT to enter into the agreements with the United States Department of Defense for the provision of services at the federal military installations under certain conditions. And, yes, we have not received any on the Senate side, and we ask that if we can reconvene tomorrow. Is that okay?

And let me read further to continue that let's reconvene on SB3156, Senate Draft One, House Draft One on Tuesday, April 28 at 09:30am in Room 329.

Is that correct?

09:30AM. Perfect. K. Thank you.

Alright. Mahalo.

So we'll adjourn that one. And we can just roll us right into our next conference committee agenda for 09:31 for our house to make our house our joint conference committees on several other agenda items are opening for the first time. Our our first measure before it is HB1163 HD1SD2 rated commercial driver's licensing. On behalf of the house, I have myself, Co-Chair, Doctor Nagashi, and Magdalena Morpko.

For the Senate conferees on HB1163, myself, Senator Inouye as Chair, Co-Chairs, Chang and Member DeCorte.

Wait. Let's take a brief reset. I just Thank you, folks. Senator Inouye for HB1163, can we push this to the end of this 931 agenda?

Sure. No problem.

No problem. Our next measure before us is HB 1688, HD 1, SD 2, relating to general excise tax exemption for aircraft maintenance. On behalf of the House is myself and members of the committee.

Okay. Sonny Humphrey on HB 1688, House Draft 2. Myself, Senator Lorraine Inouye, Chair; Co-Chair San Buenaventura; and members of the committee.

Thank you. So for this one, we have a proposed PD 1 that we’re just waiting for the release on this one. So for this measure as well, Senator, could we please push this tomorrow, April 28, as well at 9:30 a.m. here at Conference Room 329 to continue discussion?

Yes. And and thank you for the CD 1, and this is pretty a simple one, just the effective date Yeah. I believe on this measure. Yes. Okay.

Alright.

So for our next measure before us, HB 2023 related to transportation on behalf of the house is myself, cochair Hernandez, cochair Tito, member Moore.

K. On HP twenty twenty three, house draft two, Senate draft one, Senate conferees, myself, Senator Inouye as chair cochairs, Rhodes, and Laurie Watkins.

Thank you. So for this one, we are working on our amendments for this measure. If you are out, okay as well for this one. Can you go till tomorrow, April 28 at 09:30am?

That's fine. And so he's pending yet the city.

Yes. We yeah. We gotta fix them.

Alright. And we'll await them when we are released.

The next measure, HB 2417 h d two s d one on behalf of the house is myself, for chair Pui Pui, member of the party.

K. Thank you, chair. HB 2417 house draft Two Senate draft. One Senate confirmation of myself, Senator Inouye. It's chair co chairs, Rhodes, and.

Thank you. So for this one, as you are on the voice mail at 09:30am tomorrow, April 28, and I'm gonna consume two zero nine. As soon as we're waiting for revisions before we can move something longer.

Similarly, thank you for reconvene on this measure. Thank you chair.

Thank you. To the next one.

Okay. With regards to SP thirty two thirty four Senate draft two, house draft one, this is relating to traffic safety and with the Senate congrease, myself, manager, unit, chair, cochair Kanuka, and members Lee and Dicker.

Thank you. On behalf of the house is myself. I am cochair Miyake with members of the Chika and Moragopal.

Alright. And this measure, we have circulated CD one as well, and let's reconvene, chair, on this measure. Reconvening and let's see. On SB 3234, reconvening on Tuesday, April 28, 09:30am in Room 3 To 9.

I concur. So for that one, I'll see you folks tomorrow. If the people back to the top of the agenda, we're gonna h p one one six three h p one s t two. There was a set there was a conference draft that was circulated and we think we have agreement and we just received our finner lease and we also have them on that side. So if I can just briefly describe the CD one.

It currently is pretty much in its current form of the Senate draft too with the amendments that will allow the Department of Transportation to amend the requirements for commercial driver's licenses qualification standards to meet the current federal regulations on that state to issue a non domicile commercial first learner's permit and non domicile commercial driver's license for the applicants who are able to provide proof of citizenship or lawful permanent residency or eleven sixty three. If you're okay with this one, are we able to adopt the contract as a reference?

Yes. Cheer. And long overdue is rather interesting with the shortfall of labor that we're able to move this at this point in time long overdue. But thank you so much for working on this as well. Okay.

So if you're okay. So the the recommendation is to adopt the conference draft as proposed with the amendments for the house. Member Moraoka? May I take the vote on behalf of the Senate? Yes. Chair Inouye?

Aye.

Aye. Aye. Member of the court? Excused. K. We have a bill. Thank you, Senator. Thank you for that. I will work on our next conference agenda. We are adjourned for.

Okay. At least we passed one.

Agenda—on this agenda, we'll start off with SB 2580, SD 2, HD 1. On the Senate side, we have myself as Chair, Senator Wakai as Co-Chair, Senator Fukunaga, Senator Fevella as members.

On the House side, we have myself as Co-Chair, representative Hussey, and member Gideon.

So, of course, somebody can get a premium screening from money. So, you can go to Tuesday, April 28th, 9:00 AM, 04/20/2026, 9:00 AM, same conference room as well. Perfect.

That works. Install the action.

Moving on to the next item on the agenda. We have HB 1576 relating to filming. We have myself as co chair representative Hussey as well and member Tam Gideon.

Oh, my side, the, myself, coach Wapai, and Fovella as member.

We're also waiting for release on this. So if it's okay with you, chair, we would also like to roll over tomorrow, April 28, 9AM, Conference Room, 41.

Sounds good. K. Okay. We are adjourned. Please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning. We're calling to order the joint conference committee on the Senate Committee on Economic Development and tourism along with the House Committee on Tourism. Monday, 04/27/2026. We're in Conference Room 411. And this is a premium agenda.

On this agenda, we'll start off with Senate bill two five seven seven, s t two h t one relating to sports tourism. On the Senate side with myself as chair, Senator Wakai as cochair and Senate for ballot member.

Thank you. On behalf of the house, yeah, I have myself, reps Iligan and rep Templo as cochairs, rep Blackcliff, and rep Kidion as members. K.

Correct.

K. So let's scroll to Tuesday to twenty twenty six and thirty in conference for eleven as well? Yep.

But you were in agreement on a CD one, and we are waiting for when it's finished. Correct.

That's first shipment. That works for us.

Hello, my kakou, and good morning. Mahalo for joining the Senate Agriculture and Environment and the Housing, Agriculture, and Food Systems Committee—Conference Committee. It’s 9:15 AM on Monday, April 27th, and we're in room 325. Okay, let’s start off with SB 874, SD 2, HD 2, relating to veterinary medicine. For the Senate, myself as Chair, Fukunaga as Co-Chair, Richards and Awa as Managers.

And on behalf of the House, myself and Rep. Grandinetti as Co-Chairs and Representative Matsumoto as Manager.

Okay, chair. We need a little bit more time. We're still conferring on this. I'd like to roll this bill to Tuesday, tomorrow, April 28, 9:30 AM, here in 325. Is that okay with you?

Yep, thank you. Now, onto our next measure. So, we have House Bill 2246, HD 1, SD 1, relating to the Technical Control Grant Administration. Chair, I believe we have agreement on this.

So, we have a proposed CD 1, which basically adopts the tech amendments from the Senate version and then we move section three, which is the appropriation section. And we have Finance and Land. Oh, yes. Sorry.

So I wore a orange shirt.

Yeah. Okay. Let's roll back. Okay.

On behalf of myself, back of the house, myself, and Rep. Kusch as co-chairs, and Representative Matsumoto as a manager.

And myself as chair and Richards and DeCoite as managers.

Alright. So, Mike, so, yeah, we have a proposed CD 1 that just removes section three in the preparation. And I believe we have—and that's in WAM. They have WAM space as well. So, I think we can vote on this measure.

Yes. Sounds good.

Okay. We’re voting on House Bill 2246, HD 1, SD 1. Recommendation is—of the House and Senate managers—is to pass...

[Roll Call]

Good. Alright.

Thank you very much.

That is the 9:15 agenda.

Good morning. Good morning. Calling to order a joint conference committee on Senate Committee on Development and Tourism along with the House Committee on Agriculture and Food Systems. Today is Monday, 04/27/2026. We're in Conference Room 225, and this is a 9:30 AM agenda.

On the agenda, we'll start off with Senate Bill 2169, SD 1, HD 1, relating to agribusiness development corporation. On the Senate side, we have myself as chair, Senator Gabbard as co-chair, and Senator Fevella as a member.

On behalf of the House, myself and Tarnas as Co-Chairs, Rep. Kusch and Matsumoto as managers.

So, I'm still working on the CD 1. How about we move to Thursday, April 22, 2026, 11:15, in conference room 325. Next up. Next up, Senate bill—Senate Bill 5295, SD 1, HD 1. We aim to aggregate expense to public cooperation. On the Senate side, we have myself as chair, Senator Gabbard, and Senator Fevella.

In the house, myself, Rep. Kusch as co-chairs, and representative Matsumoto as manager.

Okay. Again, still working on CD 1 and waiting for WAM and Fin. release. So, how about we roll over this agenda to Tuesday, 04/27/2026 at 11:15AM, Conference Room 225 as well. Does that work for you?

Yep. Okay. Tomorrow. 28, 12:00.

The first one was 04/27/2026. Wait. No. No. Wait.

I mean April 28. Sorry.

Yeah. Okay. I just, just, just wanna make sure.

No. Thank you.

Thursday, the first one.

Sorry, I gotta go back. Tuesday, 04/28/2026, room 225 as well. Thank you. Okay.

Okay, next up, Senate Bill 2407, relating to agricultural lands. Senate Bill 2407, SD 2, HD 1, relating to agricultural lands. On the Senate side, myself as chair, Senator Gabbard and Senator Richards as co-chair.

For the House, myself and Rep. Kusch as co-chairs, and Representative Matsumoto as manager.

Same thing, still working on CD 1, waiting for WAM and Fin. release. Let's roll to tomorrow's agenda, Tuesday, 04/28/2026, 11:15, in Conference Room 325 as well.

Last bill, Senate Bill 3320, SD 1, HD 1, relating to Food and Product Innovation Network. On the Senate side, myself as Chair, Gabbard and Senator Wakai as Co-Chairs.

And now for the house, myself, representative Ilagan, and Kusch as co-chairs, representative Kahaloa and Matsumoto as managers.

Thank you. I'm working on CD 1 and waiting for WAM and Fin. release. I'm rolling over to tomorrow's agenda, Tuesday, 04/28/2026, 11:15 AM, in Conference Room 225 as well.

Yeah. Great.

Thank you. We're adjourned.

Convening the conference committee on our 9:45 AM agenda here in State Capitol conference room 325. First is SB 2999 relating to a clean fuel standard. On behalf of the Senate, we have myself as chair, senators Kanuha and Fevella.

And on behalf of the house, myself, co-chairs Kila and Perruso, and members Quinlan and Matsumoto.

Thank you. We're working on a CD that just cleans up the date and so forth, but we do not have that ready yet. We'll send it over as soon as we get it back shortly, and we're waiting Fin WAM release. So, in the meantime.

Yeah. Also, we do.

Can we roll this over to this time, same time, tomorrow at.

I think we.

Gonna do ten.

9:45.

Oh, that's fine.

10:11 tomorrow in this room..

Right. Right. Right. 10:11. Here in 325.

Yes.

Excellent correction.

Alright. We're adjourned.

Calling the Conference Committee for Health, Human Services, and Energy for the House. For the Senate, we have myself as Chair. We have Senator Kanuha as Co-Chair for SB 3136.

And on behalf of the house, myself as chair, Reps. Poepoe and Perruso as co-chairs, and Rep. Matsumoto, member.

Okay. And it’s my understanding we have an agreement on SB 3136, that we are going to take the Senate version, which has a clean date, everything else being the same, and that we have—oh, yeah, you are my WAM designee, so we needed Kanuha for—is that correct, Chair?

Yes. We have a draft we agree on, and we have finance release to vote.

Okay. So, recommendation to house and managers is to pass with amendment CD 1 for the clean date. Chair votes aye.

[Roll Call]

Yes. Can I just quickly say what the bill does? Because we're supposed to.

Yes. Sorry.

This bill just updates the regulations relating to lead in drinking water to conform with federal regulations, and the changes we made were just to affect the date.

Okay. Thank you very much. May I take the vote for the house?

Please.

[Roll Call]

Yay. Nice to meet you. Bye bye.

Okay. And for SB 3138 relating to independent audits of deposit beverage distributors, I have myself as Senate co I'm a chair, everyone else being excused.

And on behalf of the house, myself, co chair Perusco, managers Amado and Motomoto.

Okay. Thank you. And for this, we do not have WAM or FIN clearance, my understanding. May we roll this over to Thursday, Room 3 To 5, April 30 at 10AM?

Yes. Okay.

Thank you very much. Okay. Next bill is SB3103 relaying to energy assistance. This is our version of LAHI, and in which case, it's myself as chair and the others are excused. And

behalf of the house, myself and as chair, co chairs, Martin, Mariyoshi, and Pruso, and manager Matsumoto.

Okay. This one also, we do not have WAM or Fincarence. May we go this over to Thursday, April 30 at 10AM?

Yes.

Room 325. Thank you very much. And with that, we are adjourned. Thank you.

Right. Good morning. We are convening the conference committee. Monday, April 27 ten 10AM room three to five. We have two bills on the agenda.

The first bill is House Bill one eight zero two relating to conservation mitigation banks. On behalf of the House, we have myself, co chairs Hashim, m Peruso, and member Matsumoto.

Thank you for the Senate. We have self as chair with coach Ray Inouye and Senator Lam Tsao.

Alright. I think we have a draft that we agreed to. It just cleans up the date on the most recent draft language, but we are still waiting on finance release on my side. Is it okay if we reconvene to tomorrow at 10:10AM here at Room 325?

Sounds good.

Alright And then over to

Moving on to send a bill two seven five six related to conservation enforcement for the Senate, myself as chair with cochair Kinoye and Senator Kunle.

And on behalf of the house, myself as chair, cochair, Crusoe, member Matsumoto.

Thank you. Similarly, we need FINRAI or at least on this measure. Can we roll this to the same time, 10:10 here in Kirchner three to five tomorrow?

MS. Yes. Sounds good. And thank you.

Thank you. We're reconvening our conference committee on this Monday, April 27 at 10:31 three two five. We have one item on this agenda, that being Senate bill twenty eight thirty excuse me, twenty eight ninety two, s t one eight t one, relating to feral chickens. On behalf of the center, myself as chair, Kim cochair for Gama's and

Matt. Behalf of the house myself and the Kusha's cochairs and representative Matsumoto as well. K.

We have boldly moved forward with language because we're not checking about any of our differences, but we are waiting grand infinity. So if you don't mind, I'd like to reconvene the barbecue here on Wednesday, the twenty ninth at 10:30 in 1325. 325.

I'll set room and link it there.

K. Thank you

you. We are party's over. We are convening our conference committee on this Monday, April 27 at 10:31 in Room 325. We have one item on this agenda that is Senate bill twenty eight thirty five s t one h d two relating to liquor. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, Rhodes cochair, Keo Colon.

And on the house side, we have myself as chair, Matayoshi, and member, Tam. K.

On this, Kampai, Mabuhay, bottoms up there, do you wanna clarify that class 10 special license may be granted for a period not to exceed three days per application in counties with fewer than 200,000 residents, but more than 100,000 residents, amends application requirements for class 10 special licenses, including requirements relating to electric electronic submissions, lead, and single applications for certain adjacent parcels of land, and prohibits oh, is that who you are? I'm sorry.

Parts of land and prohibits the conditional acceptance of applications based on certain factors. Increases the maximum percentage of fines assessed by Compton Liquor Commissions that may be used to fund public liquor related educational or enforcement programs for the c d one. I'm actually working with you to come up with the astounding language of a clean date and a copy accepted and mistreat distributed to the managers. Are we ready to vote? Yes. We are. Fantastic. For the Senate, myself, I vote. Yes. Senator Rose. Alright. Senator Keohokalole. So liquor so, like, liquor bill. You like it. Right? Alright.

May I take the vote on behalf of the house in that space? Just in time. Co chair Illegant? Aye. Co chair Mateo Oshii? Aye. Member Ken? Aye. Member Kitty Hicks is Keith. We have a bill, and we are here. Thank you.

Okay. Good morning, everybody. This is the conference committee for water and land on the house side. It's water and land on the Senate side too. Right? Yeah. Okay. So today is Monday, 04/27/2026. It's 9AM. We're in Conference Room 229 at the state capital. First up, we have HB 2361, H D 1 S D 1. On the house side, you have myself, Marikawa, as manager or no, Co Chairs and Souza as Manager.

Thank you for the Senate. Myself as Chair with Co Chair Moriwaki and Senator Keohokalole.

Okay, so for 2361, we don't have FIN release on this, do we? Nope. I believe it's Tomorrow.

Yep. 9AM in Conference Room 229.

Okay. Good. Okay, next up we have HB649, h d one s d one, relating to small boat harbors. On the house side we have myself and Morikawa as co chairs and Shimizu as a management.

Thank you for the Senate. Myself and Senator Moriwaki co chairs with Senator Chang.

Okay, and this one too, we don't have finance approval on this. Right. And I don't think we're gonna make any changes. Are we fine with the s t one version?

Yeah. With the That's what we're looking at.

Okay. Good. So same tomorrow, 9am, this room. Okay. That's good.

Next up, we have HB 2592, h d two s d two, relating to Mauna Kea's stewardship and oversight authority. On the house side, you have myself, Garrett, Tarnas, and Kush as co chairs and Morikawa, sorry, Chimiizu, I'm sorry, as managers.

Thank you for the Senate and myself, as chair with senators Kim Rhodes and Inouye as co chairs. Oh, and that's it.

Okay. This one too, we don't have finance release on this. So roll this over till tomorrow, 9am, this room. Sounds good. Okay.

All right. Moving on to Senate Bill 2,401 relating to regional shoreline mitigation districts on behalf of the Senate and myself as chair with, senators or Senator Mori Waki as cochair and Senator La Masaou.

Okay. On the house side, we have myself, Morikawa as cochairs, and she needs you as a manager.

Thanks. We're working on a a CD for this that, kind of simplifies and cleans up. Can we roll this to tomorrow, this room, 9am as well?

Okay. Good.

SB 2,972 relating to Oahu coral reef restoration, for the Senate, myself as chair with co chairs Gabbard and Rhodes.

Okay. On the house side, we have myself, Tarnas as co chairs and Shimizu as a manager.

Oh, yeah. This one, I believe we're working on a draft. Can we roll this over to tomorrow as well, 9am here in this room? Yes. And SB 3067 relating to records on behalf of the Senate myself as chair with co chairs McKelvey and Gabbard.

Yes.

And SB 3067 relating to records on behalf of the Senate myself as chair with co chairs McKelvey and Gabbard.

Okay. On the house side, you have myself, Morikawa as co chairs, and Souza as a manager.

Thank you. I believe this is just a date, but we do need release, I believe. Well, I think you guys need release on this.

Yes. We don't have finance release yet.

We roll this till tomorrow 9AM, in this room. Yes.

Okay. And next up, we have HP eighteen eighty one, HD one SD two relating to land use, passenger road work. Director Abell. So on the house side, we have myself and Tarnas as co chairs and Kulin and Souza as managers.

Thank you for the Senate. Myself as chair with co chair Rhodes and Senator Ramosau.

K. This, we have a CD one that we passed to you, and I guess we're reviewing it and roll this over till tomorrow too.

Yeah. It generally looks pretty good. I gotta do some rounds with other folks.

Okay, sure. So 9am, this room tomorrow.

Sounds good.

Next up we have HB 1710 HD two SD two relating to historic preservation. On the house side you have myself, Ebslyn and Iyake as co chairs and Shimizu as the manager.

Thank you. For the Senate, myself is, chair with co chair Rhodes and Senator LaMozau.

K. For this one, we have a CD one. a proposed CD one. We're just gonna make a little bit of changes, like on page one, lines, line two, line page one, line six and seven, we're gonna put, instead of a permit 60% set, we're gonna make it an application number. And on page 20, we're gonna change, section number page 20 line eight on section number four. We're gonna change that. I've been we've been working with SHPD on this.

And so they wanna add we're gonna change that whole section and delete all the sandy soils section and just write proposed the proposed project includes ground disturbing activity on a property that contains previously identified bureaus, Bur Bur

Burials.

Burials or cemeteries. And that would be kind of our CD one. I'll have that drafted and send it over to you for review. And so we can roll this over till tomorrow, 9AM. Sounds good.

Good. And next up, we have HB 2218, h d two s d two relating to DLNR. On the House side, we have myself, Morikawa and Souza as Souza as a manager.

Thank you for the Senate myself as chair with co chair Moriwaki and Senator Chang.

This one, we don't have finance approval on this. So can we roll this over till tomorrow? 9am, this room.

Okay.

Okay. Sounds good. Thank you.

Alright. Moving on to SB 2818 relating to voting. For the Senate, myself as chair with co chair Rhodes and Senator Lamasala.

Okay. On the house side, you have myself and Tarnas as co chairs and Cochran as a manager.

Thanks. I think we're working on a draft to send over to you. Okay. We roll this till tomorrow. 9AM. 9AM right here in this room.

Okay. Sounds good.

Moving on to SB 2001 relating to the Banyan Drive Community Development District for the Senate, myself as chair with cochair Inouye and Senator Kanuha.

Okay. For on the outside, you have myself and, representative Liloy and Kush as and she needs her as managers.

Thanks. I think we're aligning on the final details on this. It seems to look pretty good but it's got Finn Lam. Can we roll this over to tomorrow 9AM?

Okay. Good. Okay, last we have HB 2395 HD2 SD1 relating to taking of marine deposits. On the house side we have myself, Harness and Morikawa as co chairs and Cochran as the managing.

Thank you for the Senate myself as chair with co chairs Rhodes and Moriwaki.

K. So this one we don't have finance release on our side. I'm assuming you don't have to file a release on this too.

Right.

All we have to do is change the date. So once we get released, we can move this forward. So we roll this over till tomorrow? 9am.

Sounds good.

Thank you. And we are adjourned.

Good morning, everyone. Gaveling in for our conference committee meeting, April 27, Room, 10am in Room 229. HB 1815, HD 1, SD 1, relating to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. For the House, we have myself, Representative Kapela, and Representative Sue Keohokapu-Lee Loy as Co-Chairs. Quinlan, Alcos as managers.

Thank you. For the Senate, myself as Chair with Co-Chair Inouye and Senator DeCorte.

I think we have, I know you have the CD 1. I think we have some agreements. I think we're just waiting on FIN and WAM.

Yep. Can we roll to same time tomorrow, here in this room, 10:30 in 229?

Yes.

Ok moving on to SB3007 relating to culture and arts for the Senate myself as chair with Co chair Inouye and Senator Lamassa.

For the house, we have myself and representative Hartsfield as co chairs and Alcosa's manager.

Thank you. Similarly, we need FinWAM on this. Can we roll this to this room, 229, at 10:30am tomorrow?

Yes. Okay. Thank you, Roger.

Thank you. We're adjourned.

Now convening conference committee for one higher education bill today, it is Monday, 04/27/2026, 03:17PM. We are in Conference Room 229, this is a 03:15 agenda. We have one bill HB 2171, HD 1 SD 1 relating to the University of Hawaii. Senator, this is the enterprise related activities, bill.

For the House, I have myself and co-Chairs, Hashim and Templo present, as well as, Manager Woodson present and Muraoka excused.

For the Senate, you have I, me, and then me again.

Does that does that make quorum?

Yeah. Okay. Chair Hashimoto, co-Chair DeCorte is a Member.

Okay. Great. So, Senator, we did pass along a CD 1 on this bill that further limits the scope Yes. In terms of the exemptions from county zoning laws. So, we will initiate a finance release on our side.

Okay. And, hopefully, we can get that approved. Right. There's no dollar amount after this? No.

No. So, hopefully, they can give us a release. That would be awesome. So, should we try again, same time tomorrow? Yes.

Tuesday, 04/28/2026, 03:15PM here in Conference Room 229. Correct. We have a huge agenda tomorrow. Okay. Thank you very much.

We are adjourned.

Good afternoon. We are convening on several measures this afternoon. The first on our agenda in Conference Room 016 is Senate Bill 3083, Senate Draft 2, House Draft 2, relating to protective orders. And on behalf of the Senate, it's myself as Chair, Senator Wakai as Co-Chair, Senator Rhoads is excused. Oh, he's here.

Got a full panel. Thank you, Senator.

Okay. Thank you.

On our side, it's myself and Representatives Tarnas as Co-Chairs, Representatives Iwamoto and Souza as managers.

On this measure, I believe we have circulated a proposed CD 1 for your review and consideration, and we are ready to vote if you are in agreement on the draft.

Yes. We're in agreement with the draft. And I just want to make sure that we get the right caption on the bottom. Order 2026-2458, SB 3083, CD 1, SMA-2.DOCX. And this just formalizes the handling of protective orders that was actually once in place before the changing administration. And now this is just formalizing it so that we don't have 800 orders piling up in the Judiciary. So we really want to clean this up for everybody. We are in agreement, Senator. Please, if we can take a vote if you'd like.

Okay. We are ready to vote, and I will start with our Senate managers. For myself, I vote aye. [Roll Call] Thank you. May I take the vote for the House?

Yes, please.

[Roll Call] Thank you. We have a bill.

Yay. Thank you. Chair.

Thank you, Senator Wakai. Thank you, Senator Fukunaga.

Oh, thank you. No. It is.

Okay. Proceeding to this next measure, Senate Bill thirty 3109, Senate draft one, House draft one, relating to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. This one is let's see. Myself as chair, Senator Kim, cochair is excused, and manager Lee is present.

And I have myself, representative Suyama, Morikawa as cochairs, representative Souza as manager.

I believe on this one, we have not received clearance from our fiscal committee. So yep. We would like to roll over to is it Tuesday at the same time.

Can I say just moving it just over to Wednesday? Because I don't know that we're gonna

Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay.

So it's gonna be over to Wednesday. 01:45, same time.

Okay. Tuesday I'm sorry. Wednesday, April 29 at 01:45PM. In this room right?

Okay. Thank you. That concludes this conference. And then now turning to Senate bill 2138, House draft one relating to the Hawaii National Guard state tuition assistance program. This one on behalf of the Senate, is myself as chair.

Co chair Kim is excused. Co chair Lee is present. I believe let's see. We also do not have clearance from our fiscal committees yet. We did request there's no money involved.

We did request clearance, but we have not heard back from.

Same here. I've also put in the clearance actually on Thursday. So can I suggest that we move this to Wednesday, 04:29, 01:45pm, same room, 016? Okay. Sounds excellent.

Great.

Okay. Thank you very much. And with that, I think that concludes our business today.

Very good. Thank you, chair.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Have a nice day. Good afternoon. We are conferencing this afternoon at 02:00 in Conference Room 016 on Senate bill 2645, Senate draft three, House draft one relating to fire prevention.

Thank you, members.

And on behalf of the Senate, myself as chair and cochair Elefante, and managers Inouye and Decorte are excused. Oh, cochair Elefante is present.

Thank you, Senator. On behalf of the house, it's myself Morikawa as co chairs and manager Souza is excused.

K. Thank you. I believe we have been seeking ways and means and finance clearance and have not yet received that. So perhaps if we can roll over until Wednesday, would that be acceptable?

Wednesday, the twenty ninth?

Yep. Twenty ninth at 2PM in the same location?

Yes. That sounds great.

Okay. Great. Thank you very much.

Good afternoon, everyone. We are convening the conference committee, the for the 02:30pm agenda in Conference Room 224. First up on the agenda, we have HB 1511 HD2 SD1 relating to consumer protection. On On behalf of the house, we have myself and rep Harnas as co chairs, rep Puryk as manager. Oh, I'm sorry.

I thought Jared was here already. How's this?

Start over again. Sorry. How's it going?

I opened up without you. I sensed you were near.

He apologizes for his presumptuous start to the hearing. We'll try again.

Alright. Convening now we're convening the conference committee for the 02:30 agenda. It's Monday, 04/27/2026 in Conference Room 224. First up on the agenda, we have an

Did we do that already?

Oh, yeah. Already. Oh, okay. Okay. Just Eddie Eddie, as you're approaching.

First up on the agenda, HB 1511 HD2 SD1 relating to consumer protection. On behalf of the house, we have myself and rep Tarnas as co chairs and rep Pierek as manager.

And on behalf of the Senate and myself as chair, Senator Rhodes co chair, Senator Aula, manager.

Alright. And I think we've got a CD going. We have a CD out for this. I think we're just waiting for some approval. Do you want a little more time to look at it?

This is the unsolicited mail.

We have reviewed your CD, chair and we're ready to go if you are. Or we can roll it and take another, we can take another Yeah.

Let's do it. Yeah. Alright. If you're agreeable, we'll that's my first my first conference I'm opening so I'd be a little rusty. Alright. Oh,

No, we can wait if you want.

We can do it. Oh, why wait? Why wait with a with a fantastic bill is in front of us. Seize the moment.

There's no reason. House bill? No reason. Yeah.

This is the moment.

Alright. So we're in Senate and House and Senate are in agreement on a conference draft. This bill is relating to consumer protection. It prohibits entities from distributing unsolicited mail or electronic mail that employs high pressure tactics and is reasonably likely to cause a consumer to believe the sender is affiliated with another entity. When they're not affiliated with the entity, it's really just all the junk you get in the mail.

I appreciate the Senate for allowing the amendment to to allow affiliated entities to still send solicited mail that are actually associated with the entity that gave the original contract. And so we do appreciate that. Alright. So, I will take the vote. Recommendation of the house and Senate is to pass with amendments.

Chair votes yes. Co chair Tarnas.

Aye.

Okay. May I take a vote for the Senate?

Manager Pierick.

Aye.

Yes, please.

Aye.

Aye.

Yeah. Chair Keohokalole.

Co chair Rhodes.

And manager Awa.

Aye.

Alright. Got a bill.

Alright.

Just like riding a rusty bike.

Alright. Thank you. Alright. We got a bill.

Alright. Next up on the agenda, we've got HB 1642, HD 1, SD 1, relating to consumer protection. On behalf of the House, we have myself and Rep Tarnas as Co-Chairs, along with Co-Chair Yamashita who is... Oh, who is here. And Rep Pierick as manager.

And on behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Rhoads and Lamosao Co-Chair, Awa manager, Moriwaki excused.

Alright. And we've passed over a CD for you that I believe you're still considering, and we're still waiting for FIN WAM release on it as well. We sent a memo to the money committees. Can we roll this till tomorrow at 2:30pm in Conference Room 224?

Yes. We can. So that is...

Sorry. Tomorrow, April 28. Okay. Thank you. Okay.

Alright. Moving on to HB2282 HD 1 SD 1 relating to insurance. On behalf of the House, we have myself as Chair, Reps Grandinetti, Pierick as managers.

And on behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Rhoads co-Chair, Awa manager.

Alright. And I believe we have agreement between the House and the Senate on the CD. Yes, we do. Alright. Let's vote.

Alright. Well, this bill relating to insurance, beginning on 01/01/2027, it requires insurers to provide an explanation of premium increases upon request, clarifies grounds for denial, suspension, and revocation of an adjuster and bill reviewer license, and also clarifies the procedures for denying, suspending, or evoking an insurer's license, amending notice requirements as well. That's the difference. Thank you. For property insurance.

This is a Gov package bill. Alright. So the recommendation of the house and Senate managers is to pass with amendments. [Roll Call] May I take the vote for the Senate? Yes, please. Alright. [Roll Call] Okay we got a bill. Thank you.

Alright, next measure is a Senate bill. SB 2043, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1, relating to insurance. On behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Lamosao Co-Chair, Awa manager.

On behalf of the House, we have myself as Chair and Reps Grandinetti and Pierick as managers.

So we have prepared and delivered a CD 1 making the date good. This is legislation that was worked out to help the captive insurance industry. What is your pleasure?

Yeah. We took a look too. We are... Yeah. We are in agreement. Thank you for the conference draft. Why don't we roll it one day? We'll take a little closer look at it.

Tomorrow the 28th at 2:30pm, here in Room 224?

Okay. Sounds good.

Okay. Next measure is Senate Bill 2396, relating to property. 2396, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1. On behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, McKelvey Co-Chair excused, and Awa manager.

On behalf of the House, we have myself as Chair, Reps Grandinetti and Pierick as managers.

Okay. I think we're waiting for a CD 1 to deliver to you.

Yep.

Can we roll to tomorrow, the 28th, at 2:30pm, here in this room?

Yep, sounds good.

And the last measure on this agenda is Senate Bill 2961 Senate draft one House draft one relating to insurance. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair Wakai, co chair excused, along manager.

On behalf of the House, we have myself and Rep Yamashita as co chairs and Pierick as manager.

K.

So I believe we're

Oh, I think you yeah. You have the CD?

We have the CD. We're still taking a look at it. I know this is a money committee. We we need FINWAM approval anyway, so we've got a little bit of time on this. Why don't we roll it till tomorrow?

02:30PM. Okay. It's on conference room 224.

Okay. So we'll adjourn this agenda then. Okay. Good afternoon. Welcome.

This is our Monday, 04/27/2026, 02:40 p m conference committee agenda between the Hawaii State Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection and our friends from the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. The first bill on this agenda is SB 888, Senate draft two, House draft two relating to consumer protection. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair Rhoads, co chair, Senator Awa, manager.

Sorry. The bill description on this one's wrong. On behalf of the house, we have myself and rep Tarnas as co chairs and rep Pierick as manager. So we receive we are in receipt of your CD. We're still taking a look at it.

Can we roll this for till tomorrow?

Yes. The twenty eighth at 02:40PM.

Yep, Conference Room 224. Yes. Okay, sounds good.

Okay. The next measure is Senate Bill 2471, Senate draft two, House draft two, relating to the powers of artificial purpose persons. On behalf of the Senate myself as chair, Rhodes co chair, Fukunaga McKelvey, Awa Managers. Fukunaga, McKelvey, excused.

On behalf of the house, we have myself and rep Tarnas as co chairs. He's still here. Okay. And the rep Peruso and Pierrick as managers.

Thank you for your work on this chair. We have sent over a fresh conference draft for your perusal, and would you like to take a look at it and reconvene tomorrow on this?

Yeah. We'll take a look. I actually left a meeting on this bill to come to this conference committee. So, we are still in pretty heavy discussions on this bill on the house side as well, but I appreciate your work.

Okay. Great. Tomorrow, the twenty eighth at 02:40PM in this room, 224 okay?

Yep. That works. Okay.

Thank you very much. Okay, next measure is Senate Bill 2487 Senate Draft one, House Draft one, relating to the Public Utilities Commission. On behalf of the Senate myself as chair, Wakai and Inouye co chairs excused. McKelvey excused, Awa manager.

And on behalf of the house, myself as chair, co chairs, Mariyoshi and Peruso, and member Matsumoto.

Okay. Great. Have you received our CD one? We just got it

Not yet.

Fresh. Okay. So it it was just delivered from SMA. It incorporates the PUC's recommended amendment, and we have a commitment from them that they will pursue rules to account for that request. And I believe we need WAM and FIN approval.

So can we roll this to tomorrow?

Yes. Tomorrow, 02:40 here in 224?

Yes. Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah. And the last measure on this agenda is SB 3001 SD two HD three relating to artificial intelligence. On behalf of the Senate myself as chair, Elefante, Rhoads co chairs. McKelvey excused, Awa manager.

We have the house. We have myself, reps Iligan and Tarnas as co chairs. Rep Gideon as manager. Tabra here. Tabra excused.

Let me see here. Yeah. We are oh, I think we have we've we've sent over a conference draft. Thank you for your hard work on putting together amendments. We have distributed it with many of the advocates, and I'd like to because of the complexity of the bill and the the changes in the draft, I'm gonna recommend we let it simmer for a day and reconvene on this tomorrow.

Yep. That sounds good. We've also sent it out to, some of the experts on our side for comment and would appreciate the extra time to continue to work on this measure.

Okay great. Let's reconvene tomorrow at 02:40 PM. In this room 224.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Aloha good afternoon. Calling to order a joint conference committee on Senate coming on economic development tourism with the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. Today is Monday, 04/27/2026. And we're in Conference Room 224, and this is the 03:15 PM agenda. On the agenda, we'll start off with Senate Bill 2031 SD two HD one relating to consumer protection.

On the Senate side, we have myself as chair, Senator Keohokalole as co chair, and Senator Fevella as members.

On behalf of the House, we have myself as chair, rep Pierick as manager, and rep Brandon is excused.

I believe we're still working on the CD one, so we will roll over the agenda to Tuesday, 04/28/2026 at 03:15PM, Conference Room 224.

Yep. Sounds good.

Okay. Works for me. K. We good.

Are we recess?

Recess. Actually, we I. Because you get yeah. I no.

I'm out.

To recess?

So so do I just take over?

No. Then you just go and take over because you need

Oh, for. That's right. So

I would recess.

Yeah. Recess.

We're convening the 3:15 agenda. We are on House Bill 1678, HD 1, SD 1, relating to associations. On behalf of the House, we have myself as Chair, Reps Ichiyama and Pierick as managers.

On behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Co-Chair McKelvey, and manager Lamosao is excused.

Alright. And we have a CD passed over to you. I believe we're in agreement. So are we ready to vote?

I believe we are. Have you received? Okay.

Okay. And this, this bill, all it really does is allow community associations to use cumulative voting.

Right. And we put in a correct effective date.

Yep. And we are effecting the date. Okay. Alright. So the recommendation of the House and Senate managers is to pass with amendments. I vote aye. [Roll Call] May I take the vote on behalf of the Senate?

Certainly.

Okay. [Roll Call] Okay. Okay. We got a bill.

King of voting lives. Remember back in the day, we used to make the Senate go first. No. I think there's less trust in this. Think we're done. Yeah? Okay. Thanks again.

Thank you.

See you later.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, and we'll move on to... Oh, I'm sorry. It's an SB.

Oh, SB. Okay. Thank you. We are opening on Senate Bill 2433, Senate draft 1, House draft 2. On behalf of the Senate myself as Chair, co-Chair Wakai, and manager Awa.

On behalf of the House, we have myself and Yamashita and Rabbi Yamashita as co chairs and Rep Pierick as a manager.

On this measure, I believe we are working on a proposed CD1, which has not come back to us yet. So we would propose to roll over to tomorrow.

Yep. That sounds good.

So 4:28, 3:15PM in Conference Room 224.

Okay. Thank you. Okay.

So, my title. Alright. For opening the conference committee on SB 2623. Oh, Senator.

Do do you need her?

Oh, you do need her.

I do.

Yeah. She co chaired. One more. Yeah. We need you

to be about the co question.

That was exciting. Yeah. Thank you. For for this bill, we do have agreement on thank you for the CD one drafted. We did have SMA also redrafted because we will be filing this bill.

We have if you want extra copies, we can also provide that to you folks. This bill is relating to licensing. And if I could just go over a brief description.

You wanna introduce the members?

Oh, so sorry. Yes. For the Senate, I have myself as chair, cochair Fukunaga, and member Awa.

On behalf of the house, we have myself as chair and reps Grandinelli and Pierrick as managers.

K. As mentioned, so we do have a CD one, and we are ready to vote if I could go over just a brief description. Okay. So this bill specifies that registered pharmacy technicians must be at least 16 years old, clarifies when registered pharm, pharmacy technicians are authorized to administer vaccinations, authorizes the board of pharmacy to renew certificates of registration for registered pharmacy technicians, clarifies renewal requirements for forfeiture and restoration provisions for certificates of registration.

The CD one would amend Section one line 12 to include provided that the administered that administer vaccinations, the register pharmacy technician shall be at least 18 years of age and meet the requirements under Section four sixty one, 11.4, and this act shall take effect upon its approval.

And looks like we have quorum.

We appreciate the Senate making amendments to clarify that eighteen years you need to be 18 years or older to to administer vaccination.

Thank you, chair. May I take the vote? Yes. Okay. So let's see here.

Aye.

Chair votes aye. Senator Fukunaga?

Senator Awa.

And then for the house, chair Matayoshi.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Representative Perrick.

Representative Granite.

[inaudible]

K. We have a bill.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Senator, I'm gonna just adjourn us.

I'm sorry. Yes. We can adjourn.

Okay. We're adjourned.

We are here for a conference committee meeting for the House, Human Services and Homeless Committee and the Senate, Health and Human Services Committee. I'm here with Lisa Marten. I'm here with Chairman Kelvey. And our first measure is HB1972, hd 2 sd 1 relating to taxation. And I'm here with House Conferry's Keohokalole Chair and Hartsfield member.

Okay sounds good. I have to send myself as Chair co-Chairs, Mori Waki, manager for Bella. Mori Waki

And I believe that we have agreement on the content, but we do not yet have an appropriate release for finance. Correct. So can we roll this to Wednesday same place, same time?

I think that would be very practical. Absolutely.

Great. Next up, we have SB3025. Oh, that's yours.

Yep. I don't care, you can keep rolling. You're good. You're doing a great job.

I didn't talk or anything, nothing. But just to be formal, SB 3025, SD 2, HD 3. This is relating to medical debt, having Office of Wellness and Resilience to work on a medical debt acquisition and forgiveness program. On behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Co-Chair Lee, manager Fevella. Lee and Fevella are excused.

And on the House side, we have... Lee is actually here.

Oh. My good Chair.

Snuck in quietly. On the House side, we have myself and Representative Keohokapu-Lee Loy and Hartsfield and Matayoshi, excused, as Chairs, and Garcia as Member, also excused.

Okay. Great. On this one, we'd like to continue to work with you on this. There was one clause at the House inserted I need to discuss with my fellow Chair here, but it looks like we're pretty close. But given the money, lack of money released, we wanna kick this to Wednesday as well.

Yeah. Same same agenda. So I think what you're referring to is was a requirement inserted in CPC asking for a one to one private match. Yeah. So I would encourage you folks to discuss that with the CPC.

Oh, we definitely will. We definitely will. Well, that's why I'm getting my good counterpart here. We share your...

Okay. Great. So okay. So we'll roll that one as well. Same agenda.

Okay. Next up, we have h p fifteen forty six, h t one s t two relating to health insurance. We have on the health side myself, cochair Hartsfield, Mario is the excused, and member Garcia.

Thank you. I have the Senate myself as chair, cochair Wakai, manager Awa, Wakai and Awa.

Yeah. And this one, I had shared with you a proposed conference draft. I don't know if you got a chance to think about that.

Yeah. Actually, we did. We're still trying to discuss the with, you know, the with ways and means because they amended the bill as well. So if we could just get a little more time, that'd be great. We can come back with you to to to response to your proposal that you gave us via email.

Okay. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Okay.

Great. Appreciate the time.

So roll we'll roll it to Wednesday, but happy to hear from you anytime.

Yeah. We'll hopefully get something back to you tomorrow. We'll just continue when we do, we'll send you a CD one based upon the email, which means we'd have to get for options that we do with technical.

Okay. Okay. Great. So with that, we will reconvene on Wednesday at 2PM. Sounds good.