Conference Committee

Good morning. I'd like to call to order our joint House and Senate Conference Committee hearing for Tuesday, April 28. We are on our 10:03AM agenda in Conference Room 224, and it's currently 10:06am. We have three items on the agenda. The first item is HB 2270 HD1SD1 with a new down payment loan assistance program.

On behalf of the house, we have myself and Representatives Miyake, Representative Miyake as Co-Chair and Representative Puric as manager.

Senator Humphreys are Chair Chang, Co-Chair Hashimoto, and manager from Melbourne.

This bill we have agreement. We are waiting for a FIN release on our end. So if it's agreeable to you, we can roll this over to tomorrow 10AM agenda in Conference Room 224.

Yes. Great. I'm done with my office.

K. Next item is HB28 sorry. 2385 HD3SD1 relating to housing. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Ilagan and Miyake as Co-Chairs and representative Cochran as manager.

Thank you. And Senate conferees are Chair Chang, Co-Chair Hashimoto, and manager Elefante.

And we have agreement on this as well. We are waiting for FIN release. And so if it's agreeable to you, we can roll this over also to 10AM tomorrow in Conference Room 224.

Yes. And we do have Great. Last time was Senate Bill 2060 relating to the rental housing and revolving funds. Senate conference are Chair Chang, Co-Chair Hashimoto, and manager Rhodes.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as Co-Chairs and Representative Pierrick as manager.

K. So we do have agreement on a CD1, and and we do have WAM release.

And we are still waiting on fin release.

Okay. So let's reconvene at 10AM tomorrow at 224.

Yeah. And just to clarify, the top two was 10AM. I might have accidentally said 10:10AM or just repeated the number ten, but it's 10AM, same agenda.

Alright. Thank you. There'd be no further business. This hearing is adjourned.

Good morning. I'd like to call to order the joint house and Senate Conference Committee hearing for Tuesday, April 28. We are on our 10:05AM agenda

in Conference Room 224, and it's currently 10:10 A. M. The first item on the agenda is HB 1711 HD one SD two into housing on behalf of the house with myself and Representative Miyake as co chairs and Representative Muraoka as manager. And we have agreement on this. We are waiting on FIN release still.

So it's agreeable to you, Senator Chang, if we can roll this over to the 10AM agenda tomorrow in Conference Room 224.

Yes. We do have one case. Great.

Next item is HB 1713, HD one SD one, within the school impact fees. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as co chairs and representative Murolk as manager.

Senate conference, our chair Chang, co chairs Kim and Hashimoto.

And again, we have agreement. We're waiting on FIN release. And so if it's agreeable to you, we can roll this over to 10AM agenda in the same room.

Yes. And we do have a lot of these.

Okay. Next item is HB 1718, HD one SD one related to housing. On behalf of the house, we have myself, representatives Hashim and Miyake as co chairs, and representatives Yamashita and Cochrane as managers.

Senate countries are chair Chang and co chairs Wakai and Hashimoto.

We have been released on this, but I believe we're gonna wait till roll this over to tomorrow to maybe work some last minute things out. Yes. Okay. So rolling this to the 10AM agenda in this same room. Next item, HB 1740 HD two SD two, relating to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Hashima Miyake as co chairs and representative Cochrane as manager.

Senate concrete are chair Chang, co chair Alefante, and manager Rhodes.

We have agreement, and we have been released. I believe you folks have WAM release.

Yes.

I was enthusiastic. Yes. I appreciate it. So are you folks ready to ready to vote then? Yeah.

I'm gonna read it. So this bill modifies the alternative pathway within two one h to allow a project to qualify under two one h dash 38. If 80% of the units are deed restricted forever to require occupancy by individuals domiciled on the state, The current draft repeals the prohibition against qualified residents for HHFDC projects owning a majority interest in land, and the current draft adds an eligibility requirement to limiting total assets and property not to exceed the value of the unit they are purchasing.

The c d one that we have agreement on, has been distributed to members. It has a footer labeled 2026-3192 proposed -2.

It, adds a requirement that buyers own no more than one other property and dispose of it within two years. It increases the owner occupancy requirement from one year to five years, and it makes the measure effective upon approval. Does that sound good to you guys? Alright. So the recommendation of the house and Senate managers is to pass the c one with amendments.

Chair votes, aye. Coach Amiake? Aye. And representative Moraoka? Aye.

Yes. Hash. Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong bill. Oh, my gosh.

Chair. May I take the vote on behalf of the Senate?

Yes, please.

Chair Chang? Aye. Co Chair Alefonte? Aye. And Senator Rhodes?

Aye.

Measure passes. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is HP nineteen twenty HD one SD two relating to below income housing tax credit on behalf of the house. We have myself and represented Miyake as co chairs and represented Morocco as manager.

Senate conferees our chair, and coach your Hashimoto and manager for those.

This is the draft I actually took a vote on earlier. So we have agreement, and we have fin release. I believe you folks have one release.

Yes.

Yes. Okay. Then I believe we're ready to vote. This current version of the bill allows for the transferability of light tech credits and extends the state light tech credit to 2032. The city one adopts the language of the SD two, but is effective upon approval.

Is that good with you folks? Yes. Alright. Recommendation of house and Senate managers is to pass with amendments. Chair votes aye.

Co chair Miyake? Aye. Representative Morocco? And may I take the vote for the Senate, please? Yes.

Chair Chang? Aye. Co chair Hashimoto? Aye. And Senator Rhodes?

Aye. So we have a bill. Thank you very much. Next item on the agenda oh, sorry. This is you.

Senate bill 2069 relating to the dwelling unit revolving funds. Senate conferees our chair Chang, cochair Hashimoto, and manager Rhodes.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as co chairs and, representative Cochrane as manager.

Thank you. I don't think we have flam release yet. Okay. We don't have flam release yet.

And we don't have flam either.

Okay. So why don't we reconvene on this matter at 10AM in Room 224 Perfect. Tomorrow. Our next bill is Senate bill 2338, relating to housing. Senate conferees are chair Chang, co chair Hashimoto, and manager Elefante.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Sayama Miyake as co chairs and representative Muralk as manager.

Thank you.

Okay. We have agreed to a CD one. However, we don't do not have plan release yet.

And we don't have FIN release either.

So we'll reconvene on this measure at 10AM tomorrow in Room 224. Sounds good. Senate bill two five four four related to housing. Senate conferees are Chair Chang, Co-Chair Hashimoto, and Manager Rhodes.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as Co-Chairs and Representative Cochran as manager.

We have agreement on a CD1, but we do not yet have WAV.

Yeah. And we do not have FINRA's either.

So we'll reconvene at two 10AM tomorrow in this room, 224.

Sounds good.

Senate bill 2552, relating to the individual housing account program. Senate conferees are chair Chang, cochair Hashimoto, and manager.

Yeah. Come here. Sorry. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as co chairs and, representative Matsumoto as manager.

Okay. We have we have agreed on a CD one and we do a

prime release. 10AM.

And we do not yet have been released.

Okay. So let's reconvene at 10AM tomorrow in this room.

And sorry. Just before we close, I have to clarify for HP seventeen thirteen that we're reconvening tomorrow at 10AM in this room. I don't think I was clear on that.

Okay. Okay. Thank you. For the business. This hearing is adjourned.

Thank you. Good morning. We're reconvening our committee, conference committee on, this Tuesday, April 28 at 10:10 A.M. 1224.

We have two measures on this agenda, first being Senate bill thirty two eighteen SD two HD two relating to bonds. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, Hashimoto as cochair for Bell as a member.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as cochairs and representative Moroka as a member.

Grateful for the opportunity to work with you, representative Luke, Eslin, and would like to, see if we can get some Ram and Finn released tomorrow. If we could reconvene Wednesday, April 29, 10:10 in the morning in Room 224.

Sounds good. Thank you, sir. Sure.

The next measure on the agenda is Senate Bill 3219 HD3 with proposing amendments to Article seven, sections twelve and thirteen of the Hawaii State Constitution. On behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Rhoads, Hashimoto, Co-Chairs, Fevella as a Member.

And on behalf of the House, we have myself and representatives Tarnas and Miyake as Co-Chairs and Representative Muraoka as a Manager.

Likewise with this measure, we'd like to see you tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29 at 10:10, in Room 224.

Sounds good. Thank you, Senator.

I'll see you tomorrow. Okay.

Good morning. I'd like to call to order the joint house and Senate Conference Committee hearing for Tuesday, April 28. We are on our 10:11AM agenda. It is currently 10:20, and we're in Conference Room 224. First item on the agenda, only item on the agenda is HP 1741, HD two SD one related to housing.

On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Hashim Tarnas and Miyake as co chairs and representative Cochrane as manager.

Yeah. I said to myself is Chair Chang Hashimoto's co chairs.

And we have been released on this, but I don't believe you folks yet have land release. Your belief is, we do not have that.

That said, then I'm hopeful that, that maybe we'll be able to vote on this tomorrow. So if it's agreeable with you, Senator, if we can reconvene at 10:10AM agenda, we'll roll it onto our other 10:10 agenda. Sure. Happy to be here. So same Room, Room 224.

Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned. Good morning. I'd like to call Dorota, the joint house and Senate Conference Committee hearing for Tuesday, April 28. We are on our 10:15AM agenda in Conference Room 224. The only item on the agenda is h p twenty six zero six h d two s d one, leading to off-site construction.

On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Hashim and Miyake as co chairs and representative Purek as manager.

Okay. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, co chair Hashimoto, and manager Inouye.

So, Senator Fukunaga, I believe we have agreement, and we're both waiting on release. So if it's agreeable to you, if we could roll this over till 10:30 tomorrow in Conference Room 224.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Great. Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned.

Good afternoon. We're convening the conference committee, in State Capital Conference Room 224 on our 10:45AM agenda. We have several bills beginning with SB 3028 relating to behalf of the Senate and myself as chair with co chairs Wakai and Kim.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Todd as co chairs and representative Moroque as manager.

Thanks. I think on this one, it's definitely a work in progress, but suffice it to say I think the intent here is aligned to help reduce the cost of housing for local folks and provide new opportunities for the state. We need FIN and WAM approval for this one. Can we roll this till tomorrow at the same time?

That sounds good to me.

So here in Conference Room 224 at 10:45AM.

Next item is HB 1842 HD two SD one related to government. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Hashim and Yamashita as co chairs and representative Morocco as manager.

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

We do not have an agreement on a CD one. We continue to discuss this. So if we could roll this over till tomorrow, 10:45. Same room. Thank you.

Moving on to SB2061 relating to residential condominiums. You have to send it myself as Chair with Co-Chairs Chang and Keohokalole.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself and Representative Matayoshi as Co-Chairs and Representative Pierrick as Manager.

Thanks. I believe there's a draft in the works. Can we roll this to two two four tomorrow at 10:45AM?

Sounds good to me. K. Great. With that, we adjourn. Thank you.

Thank you, chair. Great morning to you and to your members and our members. On behalf of the Senate, it's Elefante as chair, co chairs Keohokalole, Rhodes, and Kanuha, and member La Masao.

Okay. Convening this joint conference committee. It is Tuesday, April 28, 9AM, Conference Room 16. First, we have HB 1509 relating to workers' compensation. From the house, we have myself, Rep Matayoshi, rep Lee as co chairs, Rep Garcia as manager.

Alright. So for this, we do have a CD that we submitted to you for your review. One thing I would like to note on the CD has the effective date 07/01/2027. Eventually, we would like to change that 07/01/2026. So if you could consider that as a review of the CD, we appreciate that.

07/01/2026? Yeah. Okay. We'll take a look at that.

Thank you. So if possible, let's roll this over to tomorrow, April 29, 9am, conference date of '16.

Yep. That works for us. Great.

Okay.

I think you're lead on to the next one. Yep.

Sorry. Yeah. We're going to the next one. HB 1515. I know.

Very passionate. Okay. Relating to workers' compensation, we for the house, we have myself, rep Bob Tayoshi, rep Lee as co chairs, rep Cappella's manager oh, and Garcia's manager.

Yeah. On behalf of the Senate is Elephante as chair, co chair is Kanuha, and member La Masa. Okay.

So, actually, we just got FIN release on this one. Do you have one release?

Let me check. Our designee for WAM is majority leader Kanuha. Do we have release? I don't see anything. Oh.

Unless we do. I didn't hear anything. Yeah. We did get a memo, but I just wanna double check. Yeah.

I'll use the final words. Use the final word. Yeah. It says no chance. Yep.

Oh,

do we do? Is it confirmed?

Yes. Okay.

Okay. Great. So this bill, to summarize, authorizes an attempting physician to request a functional capacity examination and refer an injured employee for the examination without physical therapist to be deemed qualified to perform functional capacity examinations. For the CD, we had an effective date, let's see, of 07/01/2026. Alright.

Chair, are we good to talk?

Just so we got the correct I know you just read the description, but it's you wanna read the footer so we have the correct version?

Let's see. The footer, 2026-3317HB1515CD1. Yep.

Okay. Great.

Thank you. Okay. So we'll be voting for the house first.

My speech.

Aye.

Rev Lee.

Aye.

Myself, I'm voting aye. Ram Matayoshi.

Rev Coppella.

Aye.

Aye.

Rev Garcia.

K. May I take the vote for the Senate, please? Hey.

Senator Masal?

Aye.

Aye.

Senator Alfante?

Senator Caroja?

Excused.

Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm just gonna write the time in. Okay.

Thank you. And the date.

Alright. Moving on to the next item on the agenda, we have HB2271 making emergency appropriation for public employment cost items for my house. We have myself, Rep Lee as Co-Chairs, Rep Lee as Oda's Manager.

K. On behalf of the Senate is myself, Elefante as Chair, Co-Chair Kanuha, Member Ihara.

So we did receive a GM, and so we did draft a CD1 that we submitted to you this morning. So if you could please review that and get back to us. Is it okay if we roll over this bill to tomorrow, April 29, 9AM, Conference Room 16?

Yep. That works for us. Great.

Moving on to HB2272, making emergency appropriations for public employment cost items. For the house, we have myself and Rep Lee as Co-Chairs, Reyes-Oda as Manager.

On behalf of the Senate is myself, Elefante as Chair, Co-Chair Kanuha, and member Ihara.

K. Same thing for this one. Will we be able to roll this one to tomorrow at 9AM, Room 16th?

Yep. K. Great. Thank you. April 29.

Yes. Yep. April 29. K.

Moving on to HB 22335 relating to workforce development. For the house, we have myself, Rupili as co chairs, Ray Zoda's manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, McKelvey in Moriwaki our co chairs.

K. For this, I believe we are working on a CD. We'll send that over to you as soon as it's ready. Can we roll this over to tomorrow, April 29, 9AM, Conference Room 16?

Yep. That works for us. K.

Moving on to HB 2468HD1SD2 relating to our internship programs. For the house, we have myself, Rabeli as co chairs, Ray Zoda's manager.

K. On behalf of the Senate, it's myself, Elefante as chair. Co chairs are in Milwaukee and La Masao.

We're still working on a CD on this one, so we'll submit it to you as soon as we can. Can we roll this to tomorrow, April 29, 9AM, Room 16?

Yes. That works for us. You? House has a lot of work on draft there.

Yes. Alright. I guess we'll move on to the Senate.

A lot of house bills there. Okay. Moving on to our next measure, which is Senate bill 99, Senate draft one, house draft one. This is relating to government on behalf of the Senate, myself, Elefante as chair, Moriwaki, and La Masao are co chairs.

By the house, we have myself, replete as co chairs, Reyes Oda as manager.

K. This one, I believe we have an agreement on the proposed CD one. Yes. And on our end, I believe we do we have WAM release? We do.

And we have fin release.

We do have. Okay. So that we make sure that we have the right footer. The footer that we're working off of is 2026-2354SP99ConferenceDraft1.

Yes. That's correct.

Would you like me to read the description, or would you like to do that? Nope, please. K. As I know, this is part of house rules. Right?

Okay.

Yeah. Okay. We could do it if you want.

Oh, go ahead. Sure. Okay.

Thanks. SB 99, this allows the retirement to be employed without reenrollment into the ERS employment retirement system and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirement is employed as a law enforcement officer stationed at a public school, as a school resource officer, as a labor shortage, or difficult to fill positions, subject to certain conditions.

Requires the director of human resource of the appropriate state jurisdiction or the human resource management chief executive of each county to include in their annual reports to the legislature details on the employment of retirements as school resource officers or investigators. The CD has the effective date of 07/01/2026.

Yep. And, Chair, I just wanna acknowledge you and your staff and working with our staff on this, the amendments that were made in the house and in this proposed draft, really solidifies, this measure, and so thank you for working with the stakeholders.

I appreciate your work. Yep.

Thank you. Okay. With that, I think we're ready to vote. We do have a quorum on our end. Members, we are voting now on the conference draft for SB 99, Senate draft one, house draft one.

I'll take the vote for the Senate. Senator Elefante as co chair. I vote aye. Co chair in Milwaukee Aye. And co chair Lamasau is excused.

Co chair Lee.

Aye.

May I take the vote for the house, please? K. Co chair Syama.

And member Reyes Oda. K. We have a bill. Congratulations.

Aye.

Thank you.

Yeah. This is just the clip.

Yeah. If you're ready, Chair, we'll move on to our next item. Alright. Senate Bill 2576, Senate Draft Two, House Draft Two, relating to petitions to temporarily restrain and enjoin harassment of an employee. On behalf of the Senate, Elefante as Chair, Co-Chairs Rhoads and Kanuha, and Member Fevella.

For the house, we have myself, Rep Tarnas and Lee Co-Chairs, Rep Gideon as Manager.

K. I believe for this one, we did share with you a proposed CD1. I believe we have an agreement.

Yes.

K. And then this does require WAM and FIN release. So I'm looking at I believe it's majority leader Kanuha. Do we have do you know if we have release on this? Not the volume.

Okay. Not Jim. Alright. So why don't we roll this over to 04/29/2026 in Conference Room 16, which is tomorrow at 9AM? Yep.

That works for us. K. Thank you. K. Our next measure is Senate Bill 3069 Senate draft 1, House draft 1.

This is relating to civil service exempt positions within the Department of Accounting and General Services. On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, co chairs McKelvey and Hashimoto, and member La Masao.

For the house, we have myself, Rep Lee as co chairs, Reyes-Oda as manager.

This one, we have an agreement. We sent you a proposed c d one. I don't know if you had time to to look at it.

Yes. We are in agreement for this.

Okay. And then this does require WAM finance release, but I believe that member is not here at the moment. And I'm not sure if we have WAM or Finance release. Do you know if you have I don't

yet have been released on.

Okay. So why don't we also roll this over to tomorrow, 04/29/2026 here in Conference Room 16 at 9AM?

Yep. Works for us.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. And then our last item on our agenda, which is Senate Bill 3096, Senate draft one, house draft one. This is relating to the employee's retirement systems employer contributions for normal cost and accrued liability.

On behalf of the Senate is myself, Elefante as chair, cochair Richards, and member for Vella.

For the house, we have myself, Reppley as cochair, and Raya Zola as manager.

Hey. This one, we sent over a proposed CD one. I believe we have an agreement on this.

Yes. We do.

Okay. And this does require WAM FIN release on our end. We have. Right? We have WAM release on our end.

And we have FIN release on our end.

Okay. And I think if with that, we have a quorum.

May I read the summary?

Yep. Go for it. Great.

SB 3096. This increases the employer contribution rate for normal cost and accrued liability for police officers, firefighters, and correction officers to ensure that the amortization period for the unfunded accrued liability of the state's employer retirement system does not exceed the maximum funding period. For the CD, we have an effective date of 07/01/2027.

Yep. And then do you wanna read the footer so we have the same footer?

Certainly. 2026-2363SB3096CD1.

Yep. Great. Okay. Works for us, and we're ready to take a hold. Yeah.

Okay. Members, we're voting on SB 3096 Senate draft one, house draft one. This is a proposed conference draft. Senator Elefante as chair, I vote aye. Co chair McKelvey?

Yes.

Co chair Hashimoto?

Wait. Did I have the rate?

Aye.

Sorry. Is this the, I thought wrong. Wrong one. 96. I'm sorry.

But sure. What were you asking?

Sorry. That's it. Wait. The numbers are okay. I don't know what I would have to say.

We'll go back go back and restart. Okay. Restart the recommendation. Sorry about that. Had the wrong vote sheet.

Okay. So Members, we are voting on so we take that back, the previous recommendation. And just to reconfirm we're voting on Senate Bill 3096 Senate Draft One House Draft One this is a CD1 as was just read by Chair Sayama we are in agreement and we're now voting Chair Elefante, I vote aye. Co-Chair Richards?

Aye.

[Roll call]

[Roll call]

Hey. We have another bill.

Great. That's good. Alright. So this hearing is adjourned.

Yep. We've got a roll call. Wait. Nine. But we rolled that.

Could we recess, please? Oh, yeah. Recess.

Hey. [Unintelligible] meeting this joint conference committee, and now I'm gonna be adjourning it. K. Adjourned. Yep.

Welcome to the reconvening on conference committee meeting. Today for the House and Senate today is Tuesday, 04/28/2026. The time is 09:23 at Conference Room 16. At the top of the agenda, we have HB 2137 relating to AI.

Chair Do you wanna introduce your members first?

I will definitely I think that's important. Members.

Chair, the house Confrese we have is myself as cochair, Matayoshi Parnas, and member Lee, Tam, and Gideon.

K. On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair. Co chairs are Keohokalole, Rhodes, and member Lamasau is excused.

So, chair, we've been working on, agreed language regarding HB 2137. And what we have worked out, and we're working off of SD two, what we're going to do is prohibit certain harmful uses of realistic digital imitations generated by AI, establish certain exemptions, provides for civil actions and civil remedies for individuals injured by unauthorized AI generated realistic digital imitations.

We will also be removing any sort of disclosures of the use of synthetic performers and realistic digital imitations, and this act shall be effective upon approval. Sat language, good with you, chair.

Yeah. So just to be clear for clarification, thank you for your work on this, chair, is that we would be removing part two in its entirety, which begins off of the Senate draft two on line eight, page eight.

Yes. K.

Those proposed changes work for us Wait.

Hold on. There.

Offer the Senate draft too.

Section section two.

Section three part two, which you mentioned in your

What page?

This is page eight.

Are we are we looking at

I'm looking at the Senate draft too because that's that's what was indicated.

So we already did remove that. That's the

Yep. I just wanna be sure that we we're on the right page

We're on the right page.

Which is I have a copy of it if you want. Yeah. Okay. Yep. That works for us.

And you said effective upon approval?

Yes. Yep.

And I believe it doesn't require because there's no WAM in finance, it doesn't require any release from that. Nope. Okay. We have a quorum. Do you have a quorum?

We do have a quorum. Is it okay if we take the vote, Chair?

Yep. For HB 2137, we will pass with amendments. {Roll Call}

Chair, we have a bill.

Awesome.

This meeting is now adjourned.

Hello. Hi, everybody. Thank you so much. Reconvene conference committees, 10AM agenda, Room 16. I appreciate the patience.

Apologize. First up was Senate Bill 411, Senate draft two, House draft one related capital improvement projects at state small boat harbors and state parks. This is one which allowed the Illinois State Parks and Harbors to work on projects with reports back to the legislature on behalf of self the Senate, myself, chair co chairs Lee and Morikawa and manager of Fevella, and Lee and Morikawa and Fevella are excused.

Okay. On the hub side, do we have myself and Morikawa to my right and representative Souza is to my left.

Okay. I believe we sent a CD one over to you. Yep. On if it looks good, I believe we're just waiting for money committee release at this point.

It looks good to me.

Okay. So we'll just put in the request and keep our fingers crossed. Okay. Tomorrow? We wanna try tomorrow?

You wanna go for when? Tomorrow. Let's go tomorrow. Yeah. Okay.

Yep. 10AM here? Yes. Okay. Good?

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Next up, SB 2397 relating to neighborhood boards.

On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, co chair Rhodes, manager Owa.

And on behalf of the house, we have myself, representative Tarnas as chair, and managers, representatives, Belotti, Poipoi, and Shimizu.

Sounds good. I believe we sent you a conference draft one, and you're good with it?

I'm good with it. Let's go ahead and vote it out.

Let's go ahead and vote it out. So let me go ahead and get the vote.

I haven't seen it.

Could you just roll it to end the calendar and let me look at it? Okay. Can we roll this to the end of calendar briefly so he can because he hasn't reviewed this either.

Please. I wanna make sure that Yeah.

We wanna make sure that He's from Honolulu, so he wanna make sure

He needs to make sure he's okay.

Just come back tomorrow. Let him look at it.

No. No. No.

No. We'll do it today. Just let me just give him Just give me just a few minutes of Okay. We'll we'll we'll let him revolve. We'll move on to the next bill.

Sorry, Jer.

Oh, no. Sorry. No. No. Sorry.

We wanna do it today. Yeah.

Yeah. We'll just die. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's go ahead.

Senate bill 2601, Senate draft two, House draft one relating to procurement. This is a certification of available funds with a threshold amount and a CP, chief procurement officer with positions and appropriation on behalf of Senate, myself as chair, co chairs, Mori Walkie and Rhodes, manager Favela, and manager Favela is excused.

Thank you. On behalf of the house, we have co chairs, representatives, Tarnas and Kush, and managers, representatives, Poipoi and Shimizu.

Okay. Sounds good. I believe that we are working on a CD one with you guys on this, but we don't have a WAM release at this point. How about on your

Have we gotten what's the did you send us a proposed CD one of this?

Yeah. I believe we did.

Yes. We did. Okay. So we're we'll review that, and we also need to get FIN released. I'll make sure that we've requested that.

And Sounds good.

And then, yep, please, bud, you know, take your time in reviewing it. We wanna make sure you're good with it.

Yes. So if we could roll this over, that'd be great.

That would be wonderful. I really appreciate it. So same bat time, same bat channel tomorrow at 10AM in Room 16? 10AM tomorrow. Okay.

Alright. Thank you, sir. Appreciate working with you. Okay. With that

You wanna take a brief recess so we can let the Senator review this and ask questions?

Okay. Thank you.

Welcome back, everybody. I appreciate your patience. We just wanted my colleague to review the, proposed CD one, and I believe he's good with it.

So with that, we'll go ahead and vote.

If you sir if you could be so kind, sir, is just explain what this bill is for those folks who are eagerly watching this because they follow neighborhood boards.

Very much so. This this would basically is a bill that would allow the neighborhood boards to conduct discussions of businesses with a majority of the seats that are filled. But in order to vote on such business, it would be the majority of all seats. Very good. Pretty much sums it up.

Okay.

Okay? Any questions? Good. Okay. If not, we'll go ahead and vote.

Aye.

May I take a vote on for the house? Yes, please. Chair Tarnas.

Co chair Belotti.

Representative Poit Poit.

And representative Shimizu. Okay.

Aye.

Aye.

On the Senate, I will vote yes. Senator Rhodes and Senator. Alright. Okay. Congratulations.

We got a bill. Thank you, sir. Appreciate working with you. Okay. Oh, we're done.

Hello. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the reconvening of the conference committees between the House and the Senate on one measure, Tuesday, April 28, 10:15AM, Room 16, Senate Bill 2934, Senate Draft One, House Draft One relating to ambulance. This would do an appropriation for emergency medical services for an advanced life support ambulance in the Central Maui region with an appropriation on behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Co-Chairs Hashimoto, Managers Fevella, and Hashimoto. Fevella [unintelligible]. It's you.

Thank you, Senator. On behalf of the house, we have, myself and representative Keokapu Lee-Loy as Co-Chairs and the distinguished representative Alcos as manager.

Right now. Glad you got it here. On this one here, we've, we talked about earlier. I think we're on a policy wise, we're in agreement. We're gonna dump the preamble.

We are gonna make reference to Central Maui in the bill to ensure that it's placed in the region as well as trying to ask for appropriate amounts. There is a difference between the original appropriated request and this new memo that came from department of health. So we'd like to try to reconcile the two figures if we can. So we can get you a CD one today with that, and, hopefully, we can ask for release on it. Okay.

If you wanna get back together on Thursday, maybe at 03:50 and Conference Room 329 That sounds fine with me. Because it sounds like that's the health and human service cattle, Paul.

It is. It is. Many cattle.

Very good. I love that. So let's all Let's see. Let's all convene at one big health and human service party at Thursday, April 30 from 03:50PM and Conference Room 329. This adjourns the hearing.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the reconvening conference committee between the house and the Senate on two bills, 10:30am, Room 16, Tuesday, 04/28/2026. First up, we have Senate bill 2050 Senate draft 1, house draft 2. This is a wide board of chiropractor licensure with chiropractic students, clinical training with associated rules. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, fellow chair of Senator Keohokalole, and manager for Bella and everybody's here.

Good morning, Senator McKelvey. For the house, I have myself and representative Matayoshi, who is the new cochair on this measure. Just finalized yesterday as well as members. Mato, president, Maroka, I believe, is on on his way.

Okay. Great. I believe yesterday, we were ready to move on, but you wanted to take another look at the CD one. So are you guys good with the house position in the bill?

Yes. We are. Appreciate you preparing the CD one for our consideration. We are prepared to vote today.

Alright. So you Wanna Kick this One out then, shall we? Sure.

Sure, let's do it.

Oh, sure.

May I take the vote on behalf of the house?

Okay. {Take Vote}

Sounds good.

Alright. We have a bill. I can get your back sticks. So we'll go. Go.

Go. Next one, Senate bill 2543 Senate draft two, House draft two, related state construction projects, DAGS DOE, office of state construction manager with positions at several county planning offices on behalf of the the Senate, myself as chair, co chairs Wakai, and Elephante, managers Awa. Awa is here. All others are excused, and I don't know.

Okay. Thank you very much. This one here, we believe we've shared a CD one with you, but we don't have release on your side on our side. So if you want time to go review both the CD one and we need release, do you wanna try to roll this one over?

Oh,

there's Yep. For the house, we have myself, rep Pasham, rep Lee's co chairs, and rep Musamoto's manager.

Actually, can you send us the CDanto? I think we received that.

We'll get it to you. That's why we make sure that you guys, number one, had it because a lot of confusion with the deals, and two, that we still need release anyway. Yes. Okay. So we'll make sure you get the CD.

Okay?

Thank you.

We'll talk story. And then if we're good, then we'll try to get the little bits.

Alright. So you wanna reconvene? Yeah.

You wanna try tomorrow?

Okay. 10:30 in or 10AM? 10AM cool with you?

Yeah.

10AM. Oh, we do you would have to be in two places at once in that situation.

10:30 will work. Let's do 10:30. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

I really wanna make sure you guys are good.

Alright. Conference Room 16.

Okay. Sounds Wonderful. Okay. This concludes everything. Thank you, guys.

Good morning. This is the conference committee on eight, Tuesday, April 28, and we're all in Room 329, and we welcome everyone. And it's our second day of conference. And hopefully, we'll start, with the agenda items. SB 3,156, Senate draft one, House draft one.

This is relating to the federal military installations. The Senate conferees are myself, Senator Inouye as chair co chairs Rhodes and Kanuha and member Elefante.

Morning, Senator. On behalf of the house is myself, Rohitagawa, and member Moore.

Okay. Thank you very much. We do have a copy, and we do have WEM released for this measure. And I'm not sure where you are.

Well, again, we've been designated not yet. So if you're okay, we can

Shall we let's reconvene well, before that as well, I just wanted to mention that this measure, though it's relating to federal military installations. And reason I'd like to say this is because of the controversial issue with regards to federal I mean, military installations that those that are reading bills or don't understand, and they think we are trying to do a lease arrangement.

And just for the record, it doesn't all it does say is that we, hopefully that, the military installations wherever they are, that they participate in in, arranging and making sure that they address some of the some of the issues and make sure that the state does not contribute to any work. And we're gonna use federal funds or they will have to pay for for their, I guess, participation in improvements.

So just wanted to make that clear because I don't think people understand that we are only asking for federal assistance, the military, with regards to infrastructure, any needs during emergency times, and just to make that clear.

However, one thing that I would recommend, chair, and it brought to mind the road that's in probably your district in West, Oahu. You remember when you needed to at least ask the military to open up that road along the mountainside Kolekole

Pass.

Kolekole Pass that make sure that, when we do this measure, just to make sure that, there's an understanding, because there's a participation, I would think, because of security that DOT would be involved, but this bill is certainly clear that no funds will be coming out from state funds. Yep. Okay. So we'll reconvene then on SB 3156, Senate draft one, house draft one, and in Room 329 on I believe the date would be the twenty ninth. Today, Senator.

Today, we can roll it

to the

twenty ninth. Sorry. Case we get released.

Okay. So we'll meeting you. And and probably as we move along with the day's agenda then this morning.

If that's okay. K. Thank you, Senator.

Okay. 10:20.

10:20. Yeah. Just in case.

Okay.

Okay. Our next measure on today's agenda is HB 1688, HD 1, SD 2, raise the general excise tax exemption for aircraft on maintenance. On behalf of this house is myself, co-chair Takenouchi, member...

Okay. For the Senate, on this measure, for the Senate on HB 1688, myself, Senator Inouye, as chair, co-chair Kanuha, and member Lee.

Thank you, Senator. I believe you both have are awaiting Fin and WAM release. So, if you're okay, I'll throw this one as well to our 10:20 AM agenda.

Okay. Agreeable. Okay. Let's move on then to SB 3234.

And this is regarding—relating to traffic safety. For the Senate, the committee, Senate committee members, myself, Senator Inouye as chair, co-chair Kanuha co-chair Kanuha, members Lee and DeCorte.

On behalf of the House, we have, myself and co-chair Miyake, member La Chica and Muraoka.

Okay. And this measure is relating to safe routes to school as well, and pending releases from the money committees. Let's reconvene that pending, further.

Yes.

At 10:20. Okay. In this room, in Room 329.

Thank you, Senator. Okay. For our next measure before us, HB 2023, HD 2, SD 1, related to transportation. On behalf of the House is myself, co-chair Tarnas, co-chair Kitagawa, and member Muraoka.

For the Senate, the Senate conferees on HB 2023, myself, Senator Inouye, as chair, cochairs Rhoads and Moriwaki.

Thank you, Senator. I will promise to get you a conference drafts hopefully this afternoon, but let's roll it to 10:20 today, in this room, 329. Is that okay?

That's fine. Now, if they're going to—did you say this afternoon, you may have?

Okay.

Yes.

Hopefully. So, probably tomorrow, but we'll roll it till the 10:20.

You still wanna do a 10:20 then?

Yes. Okay.

We'll roll all the, thema, fter there.

Keep on loading. Alrighty. Thank you.

Okay. And then, for our last item on today's agenda, HB 2417, House Draft 2, SD—House Draft 2, Senate Draft 1. On behalf of the house, I have myself and co-chair Poepoe for a member here.

Okay. Thank you, chair. For the Senate conferees on HB 2417, House Draft 2, Senate Draft 1, myself, Senator Inouye, as chair, co-chairs Rhoads and Kanuha.

Thank you, Senator. So, for this one, we proposed a CD 1. We've circulated to yourself with approval, and then we've also circulated to the members. If I can describe what this bill is attempting to do, it clarifies administrative driver's license or vacation procedures by specifying the effect of the notice of the administrative verification and conformity-related administrative with new and current positions. This bill is a needed bill as we're trying to make our roads that much safer.

It clarifies the duties and responsibilities of the individual whose license is now revoked. It clarifies and clearly outlines the statutory duties now set forth by the individual, should they want to get the license back, and it allows judiciary a more streamlined process to make sure that these revocations stick with a new timeline in place and several other technical amendments. It largely has not changed from its last draft, just few technicalities and the days, I believe, we have it with them.

But if you're okay with that and the proposed CD 1 with concurrence from the House and Senate, I'd like to vote on this measure before us.

So, for HB 2417, House Draft 2, Senate Draft 1, the recommendation is to adopt the Conference Draft 1, as proposed. On behalf of the House, chair Kila—chair Kila votes aye.

One second. One second. We don't have—we didn't have WAM release.

You said WAM on this one?

Yes. There is, whenever, even though there may not be allocations for the money side, they are some language that goes to them. Yeah.

Okay. Sorry about that. We did not have Fin on our side. So, for now and then, we'll roll till 10:20.

Thank you so much.

Today? Today? Today. Okay. That's what we want.

And, yes, and this one, with regards to 2417, we'll go with the Senate draft, and the CD has been circulated to our members.

Okay. I'll see folks at 10:20.

Thank you. Aloha, and I think it's still morning, for the conference committee hearing at the 10:20 agenda for—in Room 329, and this is Tuesday, April 28th. Let's proceed with the reconvening measures before us that we heard this morning. For SB 2667, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 2, relating to transportation. The Senate conferees, myself chair—as chair—Senator Inouye, cochair Rhoads, and member...

Thank you, Senator. On behalf of the House, I have myself and Co-Chair Poepoe, with member Muraoka.

Okay. It seems like we're able—we have agreed on this measure, chair, and that with this measure, it seems like that's needed, long overdue as well, and this measure has been discussed further, and we're happy that we agreed to complete this measure. And your conferees?

And yeah, and for the conferees, we have myself, co-chair Poepoe, member Muraoka. And thank you for working on this, the conference draft one that we have before us and agree. If I can just share with the members and the public pursuant to our House conference rules. This—and conference draft one that we're adopting, SB 2667, largely does not change from its current form of the house draft rule with the effective date upon approval.

This is a further—I would call it housekeeping for a previous measure passed in 2023 to allow law enforcement to make our roads safer and more efficient for others. And largely, this is only applicable to a wall. So, just clarifying what we're voting on.

Alright. Shall we proceed then with the vote?

Thank you.

[Roll Call]

Okay. And shall I proceed with the House?

Please.

[Roll Call]

Thank you.

Okay. Shall we then proceed to the next one? Sorry. Okay. Alright.

Shall we proceed then with the next measure on SB 2697 Senate draft one, house draft two relating to transportation? The chairs are myself, Senator Inouye, co chair Rhodes, and member Alvaro.

On behalf of the house, I have myself, Co chair Poe Poe, and member Mora Hoca.

Okay. And this measure, as well, I think you're ready to proceed, and we thank you for your patience on this measure as well.

Yes. Thank you, Senator, on working on the conference draft that we have before us. If you're okay, if I could just

Yes. Please. Explain.

So largely, this is another transportation measure, and I appreciate you as a Hawaii admin Senator willing to work on this measure, not just for Oahu folks but statewide. Under the Island Of Oahu, we allow the prohibited use of shoulder lanes and designated hours when, unfortunately, there are folks who use this in a dangerous fashion. So this carves out a kind of structure for the inappropriate use of shoulder lanes outside of their designated hours.

They shall not also so I clarify that you can still use it in emergency.

There was a part of the measure I think that folks had large concern about as they're related to registration, but upon further research, there is already a mechanism that allows law enforcement to actually remove a vehicle with expired registration. So it just clarifies it's actually just one or more consecutive years. It clarifies also the responsibilities and modern modernizes our updates of Julianna who is to do what after on the seizure and updating the fine to reflect.

Because the last time this was amended was in 1997, I believe. Yes.

And then the other penalty in this one, Senator, is something that you and I talk about a lot, that there has been this proliferation of out of state vehicles coming into the state. So this allows an HRS structure for law enforcement to site vehicles who are inappropriately not registered in the state of Hawaii with the minimum fine of $500 up to a fine of a thousand dollars.

And then also updates our zipper lane and HOB penalty because currently, right now, the minimum Max the Maximum fine is actually $2.50. So this would set the minimum fine at $2.50. States like California and West Coast states find people up to $400 for a proper use of the HOB in the super league.

So I appreciate you as the Hawaii island Senator working on this measure. So that's the conference you have pointed before us.

K. Thank you. And it's been circulated as well. Can we proceed with the vote on this measure for the Senate and the house and my designated person, Senator Elefante, for the vote, please?

K. Recommendation of the conference chairs is to pass Senate Bill twenty six ninety seven, Senate draft one, house draft two as a CD. Chair Inouye? Aye. Co chair Rhodes?

Aye. And member Elefante, I vote aye. Chair, may I take the vote for the house?

Yes. I'm sorry, sir. I just wanna clarify. It's upon approval.

Upon approval, yes.

Thank you. Please.

Co chair Hila? Aye. Co chair Poe Poe?

Aye.

And member Moraoka?

Excuse.

Excuse. He was here. You have your members. Yep. Thank you.

You're welcome.