Conference Committee

The call to order a joint committee a conference committee. This is not education. It's a medium.

I'm taking track.

Yeah. Finance and, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.

I'm sorry. It's it's kinda early for me. Today is Thursday, April 30th. It is 11 AM in Room 2309. We have one item on the agenda, and that is SENATE BILL 2881, relating to tax income relating to state income tax.

And the contrary for the Senate is myself as chair, Moriwaki, and Fovella, members.

Thank you. And on behalf of the house, myself as chair, representatives Kisikawa and Gideon as managers.

Jenna, thank you very much. You know, this this sounds like an office bill. That's really an important bill. With a layperson who needs to pay their RMDs or pay any kind of taxes, they can either choose to wait till the end of the year or they can pay it upfront. And Hawaii is one of the few states that don't allow you to pay the state tax upfront.

You can pay the federal, but you can't pay the state. So when time comes for fifteenth, people stop me on the road and tell me, can't we do something about this? And so it is an important issue. So I think the house for your folks' cooperation and making sure we get this passed. And we do have RAM release.

Yes. And we have, finance released on our side as well. Okay.

So, can we go ahead and take the call?

Yes. Just really quickly, for the members of the audience, Senator gave a great explanation with the DOTA, just making it explicit, and the only change in the conference draft was to put in effectively.

Very good. Okay. So we are voting on SENATE BILL 2881, conference conference draft one. {Vote}

Hey. We have a bill. Thank you.

Thank you. And we will go out of our first 11AM agenda to double in on the second 11AM agenda.

Good morning. So we will move right into the Senate Bills. For the first bill, Senate Bill 2598-2829 General funds. I believe this is this is relating to authorizing use of monies in certain special and revolving funds for operating and administrative costs for related programs. So that authorizes them to move funds for the purposes of of adding in their flexibility and just certain amount.

I think three funds, agricultural development revolving fund, strategic development revolving fund, and the school facility special fund.

So I think the only difference we have is the effective date, so I did circulate or did you get the contract the post contract? Sorry.

Hello? I I think on all these measures, I don't think we're quite ready, though.

Oh, okay.

Well, yeah. I can check on Okay. What we

have here. I'd like to tell tell me the members. Okay. The house the Senate conferees and myself as chair, Senator Hashimoto, and Senator Favella.

Okay. Our side is myself as chair and reps, Takenoguchi and Gideon as staff members.

So we will roll this over to tomorrow at, eleven, same time.

Seven? That'll work?

Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Thank you. Next bill, SENATE BILL 2921 relating to state funds.

This this is all of the non federal non general funds looking at excess funds in those accounts, and we're still working on contract from that. Oh, let me go back too.

Alright.

Senator Kanpuru, myself, chair, Hashimoto, and Prabella. Okay.

On our side, myself as chair, Rev Takenouchi, and Gideon Panasbach.

So we will roll this over as well tomorrow at 11AM in this room, 309. Metro, Senate Bill 262600, related to the General fund. This is the, myself as chair, and Bella as members.

And on behalf of the house, myself as chair, Marcy Tito, and Gideon as members.

And this bill provides a tax credit to payer taxpayers who makes deposits to the emergency and budget reserve fund and other post employment benefits trust fund pursuant to Article Seven, section six of the state constitution. And this also needs to be rolled over. Yes. The thing is wrong.

Yeah. We'll do Friday, 11AM in

this room. Yeah. In this room. Next bill is 7.2808, and this is related to the budget. This is the easement bill we thought so we have bills.

We have we have bonds that are in are forgetting the. The Senate size, myself as chair, and senators Kashimova as members.

And on behalf of the house and myself as chair, represents Kisagawa and Gideon as members.

K. The, intent of thiS Bill to SB 2848, and I think we circulated a conference draft, but, what we wanted to do is is still work on another version of it to include defeasement. We're taking out defeasement. It has to do with defeasing funds because we have properties that are funded through tax exempt bonds. But if we want to use, for example, cafeteria to generate revenue, we need to have taxable bonds.

So what we're doing is defeasing the having a fund that can defease, which means cancel that tax exempt bond status and then shifting it to taxable bonds so that we can collect the revenues. So what we're doing, because it is premature to have the fund when we don't know procedures, what we've done is added in a working group so that they can start looking at policies and procedures and how we might defeat funds. Yes. Thank you for the conference track.

We are reviewing that and looking forward to see what we can come to agreement on.

And we will send you a draft that's being revised now, and that, again, will be tomorrow at this week. Now it's yours. Okay.

On HB 329, HB1S1 relating to conformity to the internal revenue code. The I was conferees with myself as chair, reps Takenouchi, and Gedeon as managers.

On our side is myself as chair, Senator Kanuha and Senator Fidelity. Okay.

I think similarly on this one, this is relatively straightforward, but I think tomorrow we'll be ready to update things out. So 11AM tomorrow if that's okay.

Alright. Thank you.

Sure.

And next, we're gonna be thing on HB 2452 SD 1 relating to state bonds. We have myself as chair, Reps Kitagawa and Reyes Oda as managers. K.

On our side, myself as chair, senators Kanuha and Fevelle as manager.

Yes. So this is our annual bill for state bonds. I think we're still waiting on a lot of things from FIN and WAM. If we could just roll this to tomorrow, 11AM here in this room.

Thank you. Okay. And next

we'll be opening up on HB 2547 HD1SD1 relating to corporate bonds, on behalf of the House, myself as chair, representatives Kisagawa and Reyes Oda as managers.

Sitting inside, myself as chair and Senator Kanuha and Pavella.

Oh, I think, we are still working on this one. This bill would allow budget finance to use, short term investment corporate rate bonds.

Can we keep working on this one and wait for approval and roll this to tomorrow, 11AM in this room?

Thank you.

K. And the final measure on the agenda, HB 2275 h d one s d two relating to funding adjustments for state programs. On behalf of the house, myself as chair, representatives Kitagawa and Gideon as managers.

On our side, myself as chair and Senator Hashimoto and Fevella as manager.

And this is, emergency funding appropriation. I think we're still waiting on the final number that we're gonna, be able to, release. So can we also, roll this one through tomorrow, Friday at 11AM in this room? Thank you. Great.

Okay. That's all. We're adjourned. Thank you.

Aloha, everyone. Reconvening on HB 1800, the state budget bill here in Thomas Room 309. The plan would be that we roll this over to 7PM and Should be okay. You good?

Yeah. The budget is closed. We're done with the budget. It's just gonna be paperwork, proofing, editing, verifying. But hopefully, we can test Just wanna give the staff enough time so that we can report out the actual line items as we have.

So now we can focus on those. So thank you guys all for all your help, and just thank you so much to the finance committee and their staff.

And same goes on the ways and meansides, and honestly a pleasure. So thank you all for your patience too.

And, Will. Yeah. Or, Will. Yeah. Or, Will.

Somewhere around.

Okay. So we'll adjourn and reconvene at seven.

Good morning, and welcome to the 10AM agenda for the committees on housing in the house and the Senate. Our first bill today is SENATE BILL 2060 relating to the rental housing revolving fund. Senate conferees are chair Chang, co chair Hashimoto, and member Rhodes.

On behalf of Dallas, we have myself and representative Miyake as co chairs and representative Pierick as manager.

I understand we have we have WAM release, but we're still waiting. Fin, is that right?

Yes. We are waiting for him.

Come back on this bill 10AM tomorrow in this room, 224.

Sounds good. Thank you. Next item is HB 1713 HD one, SD one related to School impact fees. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Miyake as co chairs and representative Miyake as manager.

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

We are still waiting for FIN release, and I believe you folks are still waiting for him. Is that right?

That's right. Okay.

Next item is HB 1718H21S21 related to housing. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Hasham and Miyake as co chairs, and representatives Yamashita and Cochran as managers.

So that said, we if it's agreeable to you, Senator Chang, we could roll us over also to our 10AM agenda tomorrow in Room 224.

Sounds good.

Senate managers are Chair Chang and co chairs Wakai and Hashimoto.

We actually have been released on this, but I believe you folks are still waiting for WAM. Is that correct?

That's right. We're still waiting on WAM.

So if it's agreeable with you, if we can roll this over till 10AM tomorrow in this room.

Sounds good. Thanks. Senate Bill 2338 relating to housing. Senate conferees are chair Chang, cochair Hashimoto, and manager Elephante.

On behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Sayama and Miyake as co chairs, and representative Muraoka as manager.

And again, sorry. We we have a new CD one that we've agreed on, and so we're still waiting on WAM release.

Yeah. We do. We sent this in late last night for, PIN release. So yeah.

Okay. Great. So let's reconvene on this measure at 10AM tomorrow in this Room, 224.

Sounds good.

And finally, SENATE BILL 2552 relating to the individual housing account program. Senate managers are chair Chang, co chair Hashimoto, and Senator Favela.

And on behalf of the house, I have myself and representative Miyake as co chairs and representative Matsumoto as manager. And, actually, she stepped out for a second, and she is back. Amazing. Yes.

We have agreed on a CD1, and I believe we have been realeased.

And we have been released. So we are ready to go. Yay.

Okay. Great. So, the description of the bill is for taxable years beginning 01/01/2027, it increases the maximum annual and total allowable deduction for contributions to individual housing accounts for income tax deductions and increases the maximum allowable contributions for for individual housing accounts to qualify for the income tax deductions, repeals outdated language applicable to first time home purchases made before 01/01/1990 by persons with an individual housing account.

The CD1 changes the proposed maximum changes the maximum deduction and contribution amounts to $20,000 for an individual taxpayer in a single taxable year, $40,000 dollars for a married couple filing jointly in a single taxable year, and $200,000 for the allowable limit for all taxable years in the aggregate, a lifetime limit. It also changes the effective date to upon approval.

That sounds good to me. Senator Chang and Senator Hashimoto and all the rest who have worked hard on this, I appreciate your work and I appreciate the efforts, over many years of trying to get this bill to the finish line. Good to see it.

Thank you, sir.

Yes. Many years and many individuals including representative Matsumoto. Alright. The recommendation of the house and Senate managers is to pass with amendments. {Vote} We have a bill.

There being no further business, this meeting is adjourned.

Good morning. We're reconvening our conference committee on this Thursday, April 30 at 10:10 in Room 224 on three measures on this agenda. The first being Senate Bill 3218 SD2 HD2. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, Hashimoto, co chair, Fevella as a member.

On behalf of the House, we have myself and Representative Miyake as co chairs and Representative Muraoka as manager.

Okay. I've enjoyed working with you on this measure. We've got all the language squared away and are just awaiting our money committee's OKs. So if you don't mind, I'd like to roll this over till tomorrow. That would be May 1 at 10:10 in Room 224.

Sounds good to me.

The next measure is Senate Bill 3219 HD two, proposing amendments to Article 7, Sections 12 and 13 of the Hawaii State Constitution. On behalf of the Senate, myself, Mr. Chair, Rhodes, 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 Murak as manager.

And likewise, with this measure, we have worked out all of the language and are waiting for the money committee approval. So if you don't mind, I'd like to meet you here in the same room, 224 at 10:10 tomorrow, May 1.

Sounds good to me. Okay. Perfect. And then last thing on the agenda is HB 1741 HD 2 SD 1 related to housing. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Hashem, Tarnas, and Miyake as co chairs and representative Cochrane as manager.

On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, Chang, Hashimoto as co chairs.

This bill, we did put in another or sort of last minute revision last night. We were able to get FIN release this morning on it. But given, I think, the last minute nature of that revised release, I think you guys don't yet have WAM.

Yeah. We're still, like, in the transfer.

So if it's agreeable to you, Senator Wakai, if we could roll this over to 10:10AM tomorrow in Conference Room 224.

Yep. Look forward to it.

Alright. Sounds good. Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned.

We are on our 10:30 am Agenda, and it is exactly 10:30. And we are in Conference Room 224. The first item on the agenda is HB 2606 HD two SD one related off-site construction.

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

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

So we have worked out our actually, revised CD one, which I believe we both sent in last night for fin actually, I'm sorry. We're actually working on drafting still on our side. So we have not submitted that for fin release, but but we will be as soon as we get our final draft back. And so if it's agreeable with you, Senator Fukunaga, if we could roll this over till tomorrow at 10:30. Okay.

So tomorrow 10:30AM in Conference Room 224. Okay. Right. Signal for the business is hearing is now adjourned.

Good morning. We're convening the conference committees on our 10:45AM agenda on SB 3028 relating to property conveyance on behalf of the Senate. I have, myself as chair, Senator Dela Cruz as co chair, and Senator Wakai.

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

Thanks. I think there's a ongoing conversation. Can we roll this over to 10:45AM tomorrow in Conference Room 224? Perfect.

Looking forward to maybe voting.

The next one's yours.

Next item is HB 1842 HD 2 SD 1 relating to government. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representatives Hashem and Yamashita as co chairs and representative Muraoka as manager.

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

We have no agreement on this bill. So if it's grilled with you, Senator Lee, if we could roll this over also to 10:45 tomorrow in this room. Yes. Okay. Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned.

Which one do you want to confirm?

We'll start with the 10:31. Good morningg, convening our 10:31 conference committee agenda for the several agendas for us this morning, beginning with HB 2023 HD2 SD1, relating to Transportation. On behalf of the house is myself, Co-chair Tarnas, Co-chair Kitagawa, member Muraoka.

Okay. Thank you, chair on the Senate. I'll come through these for HB 2023 House Draft 2 Senate Draft 1, myself; Chair Inouye, and Co-chairs; Rhoads and Moriwaki.

Thank you, Senator. So for HB 2023 HD2 SD1, there was an agreed upon CD1. This one is the measure that we're waiting for both. We have failed release. We got that this morning.

So we need for WAM release. For this measure, are you okay if we go tomorrow to 09:35 and May 1 here in Conference Room 329? Thank you, Senator. I think it's 5:01 tomorrow.

09:31. 951. Yes.

Yeah. 09:35AM hearing in Conference Room 329.

Yes.

Yes. Thank you. Again at 09:35AM, please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. HB2417, HC2SD1 related to administrative license verification. On behalf of the house is myself, co-chair PoePoe and member tiers.

I have the extended countries on HB 2417, HD2SD1, myself, chair Inouye, co chair is Rhodes, and.

Thank you, Senator. For this measure as well, there is no fan, but there is no WAM. So we're waiting on release on that side from you folks. If you're okay, can we also roll this into 09:35AM tomorrow, one from 02:30 to nine for further discussion? Okay.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Okay.

Alright. Sorry. Let's proceed then with SB 3234, Senate draft two, House draft one relating to traffic safety. Senate contract release on this measure is myself, Jerry Inouye, and co-chair Kanuha, members Lee and the court.

Thank you, Senator. I'll be over the house. It's myself, coach Yamayake, members of the chief and moral compass.

K. And this measure as well, we need to reconvene, and let's reconvene then on SB 3234 on Friday, May 1 at 09:35AM in Room 329. Thank

Thank you, Senator. I concur. With that, let's go right into our 10:41, 10:40 conference agenda for the measure HB 2423, HD 3 SD 1 related to biodiesel. On behalf of the house is myself, co chairs Ilagan, Matayoshi, Miyake, members of the.

Thank you. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair.

Senator, for this one, I believe we're waiting on your folks' side. It got been released for this measure. Are you amendable to beginning tomorrow, 09:35AM in Conference Room 329?

Actually, can you do 09:50.

Yep. 09:50AM agenda for nine five zero. 09:50AM for HD 2423, May 1st here in Conference Room 329 for further discussion. K. Thank you.

K. I'll see you folks tomorrow. We are adjourned.

Good afternoon. Good morning. We're convening the conference committee on our 11:10AM agenda here in the State Capital Conference Room 329 on SB 3029, linked to community development on behalf of the Senate, myself as chair with co-chair Inouye and Senator Lanza.

Thank you, Senator. On behalf of the house, I have myself and Kocekita Gao, members of Miyake and Murabukawa.

Thank you. I think we have a FINLAN lease requirement here. So can we roll this over to 11:20AM here in Conference Room 329 tomorrow?

Yes. I just wanna confirm that we sent the c we received the c d one, and we sent it for a payment release request. Okay. Yep. Tomorrow, 11:20AM, if you're in this room.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, Mike. Good morning. Join the Senate tag and department committee and the House Ag and Food Systems Committee Reconvene Conference Committee. It's 09:30am on Thursday, April 30. Starting off with SB2110SD1HT1.

Descent, myself as chair, Richard's co chair, and Rhodes as manager. On behalf of

the house, myself and rep Sloan and Chris as co chairs, and rep Russo and Matsumoto as managers. Okay.

So waiting for WAM and Fin release on this one. Nice. And so

We'd like to roll this to Friday, May 1, at 09:15 AM, here in Room 325. And then moving on to SB 2321, SD 1 HD 1, with two lines [inaudible] above. The Senate, myself as Chair, Richards as Co-chair, Rhoads as Manager.

And for the House, myself and Rep Kuschas as Co-chairs, and Rep Matsumoto as Manager.

Okay, chair. So waiting on the money release from both WAM and FIN. So roll this into May 1, 09:15AM, and 03:25. And then on the SB 2706, We went to work with each development. We decided myself as chair, Kim and Richards co chairs, Awa as manager.

On behalf of the House myself Reps Garrett and Kusch as co chairs and then Matsumoto as manager.

Waiting for the WAB and FIN so we will move this to May. Friday, May 1st at 9:15, and Room 325. SB 2800 is next.

Related irrigation systems, Senate, myself as chair, Lee and DeCoite as co chairs.

And as for the house, myself, Rep Hashem and Kusch as co chairs and Rep Matsumoto as manager

And again, waiting for money release, so we'll roll this to Friday, May 1 at 09:15AM and 03:25. Next is SB 3233, s t one h t two, the lead to ag workforce housing, the Senate, myself as chair, McAlban Richards as co chairs, Rhodes as manager.

On behalf of the house, myself, got Miyake and Chris's co chairs, and Rick Matsumoto is manager.

And, again, waiting for a WAM and Fin release. We'll roll to Friday, May 1, 09:15 AM, and in Room 325. Next is SB 2405. We need to add workforce housing to the Senate, myself as Chair. Hashimoto as Co-chair. Richards as Manager.

And on behalf of the House, myself, Reps. Miyake, Ichiyama, and Kusch as Co-chairs, and Rep Matsumoto as Manager.

Okay. Monday, we're gonna be switching roles to Friday, May 1, 09:15AM, and Room 325. SB 177, relating to Aquaculture. We're the Senate. Myself as chair, Richard as cochair, or Waz managing.

On behalf of the house, myself and reps, Mariosi, and Kush as co chairs, and rep Matsumoto as manager. And,

And yes, we'll all this funded for tomorrow, Friday, May 1, 09:30 here in Room 325, and I'll turn it over to you.

09:30 or 09:15? 09:15.

Oh, definitely.

Got a mistake here. 09:15?

Yep.

Next up, we have House Bill 1929 HD1 SD2, relating to biosecurity. In the house, it's myself, and Rep. Kusch as co chairs, and Rep. Matsumoto as manager.

And for the Senate, myself as chair, De Coite as co chair, Rhoads and Awa as managers.

This measure, I've been trying to find the compromise between the House and Senate versions, and I haven't been able to do so. So at at this point, I think think we're just gonna have to defer this. And at least for the resources, I'm hoping that we could at least, in the budget where we'd have to get resources from. Okay?

Next up, we have House Bill 2551 HD1 SD1, relating to Agriculture. We got for the house. It's myself and rep. Kusch; co chairs, and Rep. Matsumoto as manager.

And the Senate, myself as Chair, Richards; Co-chair, Awa; Managaer.

This one's we have agreement.

We're just waiting for a WAM and Finance release. So we can go back to tomorrow, May 1 at 09:15AM in this conference room.

Okay.

Last on this agenda, House Bill 1707 HD1 SD2, relating to agriculture. On behalf of the House, it's myself. We have Kusch Co-chairs. We have Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Perruso, and Matsumoto as Managers.

And for Senate, I have myself as Chair, Kanuha as Co-chair, Richards and DeCoite as managers.

And so much you guys are just waiting on financial matters. So let's roll over to tomorrow, 09:15AM, and in room 325.

Okay. Sounds good.

And now we'll adjourn.

Hey. Good morning. We're opening on the on a conference committee meeting for Thursday, 04/30/2026. It's our 09:35AM agenda, and we're in Conference Room 325. And we have one measure on this on House Bill 2207 HD 2 SD 2 relating to invasive species.

On behalf of the house, it's myself, and Reps Matayoshi and Kusch as co chairs and rep Kahaloa and Matsumoto as managers. Yeah.

Senate, myself as chair, Kanuha as co chair, and DeCoite and Richards as managers.

Okay. For this measure, do you have a proposed CD 1? We apologize we are waiting for our planning committee. So we can just move it to the chairman with all the other managers. Okay.

So that's tomorrow, May 1, 09:15AM.

Thank you. K. Thank you.

Hi. Good morning. Convening joint conference committee on this Thursday, 04/30/2026. We're in Conference Room 411, and this is the 09:45am agenda. On the agenda, we have Senate Bill 2595, SD1 HD1 relating to agribusiness development preparation.

On the Senate side, we have myself as chair, Senator Gabbard, and Senator Kidani as co chairs.

And on behalf of the house, it's myself and Rep Kusch co chairs and then Matsumoto as manager.

So I believe we're in agreement with the CD1 and waiting for one in WAB and FIN release. Can we roll to tomorrow at May 1, 09:45AM in room 411? Excellent agenda. We have Senate Bill 2407. SD2 HD1 relating to agricultural land.

On the Senate side, we have myself as chair, Senator Gabbard, and Senator Richards as co chair. Yeah.

For the house, it's myself and Rep Kusch as co chairs and rep Matsumoto as manager.

And, again, I believe we can agree we are waiting for WAB and FIN. K. We'll do tomorrow, May 1, 09:45 of May 1st, 2026 at 9:45.

411?

411

Thank you.

Mix up Senate Bill 3320 SD1 HD1 relating to food and product innovation network on the Senate side. Myself is Chair, Center, Garrett Center will clients who chairs.

Nothing else. It's myself and reps, you know, inquisitive coaches and the pamalua and Matsumoto as manager.

Recalling the, this conference for the agenda for 10:15AM today. Sorry. Yeah. At Room 325, the 10AM calendar. Okay.

First up, we have SB 3138. This is relating to independent audits of deposit beverage distributors. For my, for the Senate, it is myself as Chair, Senator Moriwaki as cochair, and Senator McKelvey as member.

And on behalf of the house, myself, cochair Peruso, and members Amato and Matsumoto.

Okay. So this bill basically removes the requirement for, what and the identifies the frequency and limits that frequency of obtaining and submitting independent audits based upon quantities of deposit beverages, Specifically, it limits it to those who do just 5,000,000 or more deposit beverages a year, so it protects the small craft distributors from the huge expense of an independent audit. Okay. Are we ready to move that out?

Yes. We are ready.

Okay. Thank you. So passing SB 3138 SD1 HD1, and I believe it's CD1. Chair votes aye. [ROLL CALL] Senator McKelvey's excused. May I take the vote for the house?

Yes, please.

Okay. [ROLL CALL] We have a bill. And what time is it? 10:05. Okay. Okay. Okay. So for the next one I believe we don't have PIN release or WAM release. So may we roll it over tomorrow?

Yes.

Okay.

Tomorrow. Oh, 10AM here in 325?

Yes. Thank you. And so with that, we are adjourned. Thank you very much.

Alright. Thank you. We are here. It's Thursday, April 30, 10:10AM, Room 325 for a conference committee meeting. First on the agenda, we have house go one eight zero two relating to conservation mitigation banks.

This bill authorizes DLNR to move forward with creating conservation mitigation banks that could be used when there's, like, incidental take permits or things like that that require some kind of offset. And on behalf of the House, myself, co chairs Hasham and Peruso, and Angela Matsumoto.

Thank you for the Senate, myself and pusher Inouye, and Senator Lamsa. Alright.

And I think we have finance release.

We have web as well.

We have everyone we need to vote. We have quorum. Yes. K. I have a vote.

Sorry. My first time taking a vote for session. So, yeah, this bill and it authorizes DLNR to create conservation mitigation banks. We have just effective date, I believe, in this conference draft, and we are going to recommend to pass it with those amendments. I vote aye.

Chair Hashem?

Aye.

Vice chair Pruso? Aye. And Brett Matsumoto? Aye. And may I take the vote for the Senate?

Chair Lee.

Aye.

Chair Inouye. Aye. Senator Lamasau. Aye. It's in behalf of Bill.

Okay. Moving on to SB 2756 relating to conservation enforcement. On behalf of the Senate, myself and Senator Benoit co chairs with Senator Kanubha.

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

Thank you. I believe we have

filled in the blanks and are waiting, basically needs to finance. Can we roll this over to 10:10AM tomorrow, period two three two five? Yes. Lastly on the agenda, SB 2999 relating to clean fuel standard on behalf of the Senate, myself, as chair with senators Kanuha and Favella.

And on behalf of the house, myself, co chairs Keila and Peruso, members Finland and Matsumoto.

Thank you. This one, I believe we're also waiting on Finland to move all this to 10:10AM tomorrow here in conference. We'll reach you back. Yes.

Okay. Okay. And we're done.

Done.

Good morning. We're reconvening our conference committee on this Thursday, April 30 at 10:45 in Room 325. We have one measure on measure on this agenda, that being Senate bills twenty six seventy one s t one h t two relating to essential permitting positions. On behalf of the Senate, myself, the vice chair, Hashimoto, and Nefagala's members. And on behalf of the house, we have myself as chair, Sayama Hasia's co chairs, and members, Tam and Gideon.

K. I've enjoyed working with you on the language of this measure, but unfortunately for us, we do not have RAM approval. So if you don't mind, could I see you tomorrow here in Room 2 excuse me, three two five at 10:45, that's, tomorrow. Lao LAO date April. May 1.

Yes. K. Great. Perfect. Thank you.

See you then. Hi. Good morning. We are meeting our conference committee on this Thursday, April 30 at 10:15, Room 325. We have two measures on this agenda.

The first being Senate bill 2892 SD one, HD one relating to feral chickens. On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, Kim as cochair, Fevella as a member.

On behalf of the house, myself, member of Cruz as cochairs, and representative Matsumoto as manager.

Okay. I believe this bill, we have to have roasted a little longer, so we will come back to see you tomorrow, May 1. That is a long long day in Room 325 at 10:50 ten five zero. That's good. K?

Oh, check it out. K. Oh, I'm sorry. I said 10:50. I I would like to move it up to 10:45.

So if you put this all

up on the check. 10:45 tomorrow. Great. Thanks, Tom, Corey. The next measure is Senate Bill 2673, s t one, h t one relating to the counties.

On behalf of the Senate, myself as chair, Hashimoto and Lee as co chairs, Prabella as a member.

K. On the house side, we have myself and Mori Kawa

as co chairs and Shimizu as member. Fantastic.

Had the pleasure of working with you to figure out all the language on this measure. We have grant approval, but I don't think we have, FITA approval. So if you don't mind, could we come back here tomorrow at 10:45 in Room 325, and that's May 1, La la. Yes. Okay.

We will see you tomorrow.

Committee hearing for, April 30, Thursday, 11AM, Room 325. First bill on the agenda today is House bill 1618 relating to cesspool conversions on behalf of the House, myself, co chair Caruso, member Matsumoto.

Tenth presented, myself as chair, and McKelvey and Decoy as co chairs.

Alright. I think we have agreement on the draft, but we are waiting on minutes and raising needs. So can we roll this to tomorrow? Same time 11AM, same room three to five.

Sounds good. And, speaking on the SB 2095 s t one h t one relating to environmental protection. The descent, myself as chair, McKelvey and Richards as co chairs.

On behalf of the house, myself, co chair Keohokaliliy, Anne Russo, and member Matsumoto.

Okay. Still waiting. I'm gonna finish it the same tomorrow, Friday. It's May 1. Right?

Yep.

It's a long day.

At 11AM here in Room 325.

Sounds good.

And then on the last measure, SB 2101 s t one. H t one relating to organic waste for the Senate, myself as chair, Wakai and Richard as co chairs.

On behalf of the house, myself as chair, co chair Peruso, member Matsumoto.

And, likewise. So we're waiting on money release for Friday. We'll load till Friday, May 1, 11AM, and then 03:25.

Sounds good. Alright. We're adjourned.

Okay. Good morning, everybody. We are regional meeting our conference Thursday, 04/30/2026. It's 9AM and we're in Conference Room 229 at the state capital. First up, we have HB 649 relating to small boat harbors.

And I believe we have agreement on this deal. And basically, we're are taking the s t one and providing a clean day. Right? Yes. And we have on our outside, we have finance clearance.

Do you have money clearance on their side? I believe we do. Okay. So, shall we take the vote? Yeah.

Oh, Jesus. I keep forgetting that. You guys are not important. That's a good time to listen. Okay?

Please don't take that seriously. On the house side, right here, I'm checking to see if there's more room. On the house side, we have myself and Maurie Kawa as co chairs and Shimizu is to my right.

Thank you for the Senate, myself and Senator Moriwaki co chairs and Senator Chang.

Okay. So we have quorum on this. Shall I take the vote? Please. So the chair votes, aye.

Maury Kawa? Aye. Shihi Izu? Aye. Okay.

Under for the Senate, Senator Lee? Aye. I got that correct. This time I conceived. Right?

Mori Waki? Aye. Did I get it correct? Sorry. Yeah.

See? And Senator Chang. Aye. K. We have a bill.

Okay. So next up, we have HB 2592 relating to the Mauna Kea Stewardship And Oversight Authority. For the House side, we have myself, Garrett, Tarnas, and Kush as co chairs, Mori Kawa and Shimizu as managers.

Thank you for the Senate. Myself with co chairs Kim, Rhodes, and Inouye.

Okay. So we are still working on a CD one here. We found some technical changes that we would like to make. So once we get the CD, I'll get that back to you. And

can we roll this over till tomorrow? Okay.

Thursday '9 Tomorrow Thursday 9AM. So that's the people. Five one. I do. So it's May 1.

Five 01:20 twenty six. In this room, Room 229.

Moving on SB 2401 relating to regional shoreline mitigation districts for the Senate, myself as chair with co chair Moriwaki and Senator Lamasau.

Okay, on the house side, we have myself, Ori Kawa, and as co chairs, and she needs you as a manager.

Thank you for this. I believe we have agreement on language, but we were waiting on FinWAM.

Yes. That's correct.

Can we roll this also to 9AM tomorrow here in Conference Room 229?

Yes. That's correct.

Up next is SB 2367 relating to state voting facilities for the senate myself as chair with Co Chair Moriwaki and Senator Lamosoa.

Okay. On the house side, we have Excel and Morikawa as co chairs and Tam and Shimizu as managers.

This, I believe we have agreement and on our side we have release.

Yes. And we have release on our side too.

Okay.

So you sent us the CD one.

Can you briefly describe the change?

Happy to- Happy to help the house out. Okay. Basically, this measure allows for reinvestment into Ala Wai boat harbor for improvements. It bifurcates the harbor into two phases. One, MAMCA phase, which provides for improvements to access to the shoreline for the public as well as preserves parking and things that were raised by the community.

So people sorry. I'm just know what you're worried.

And second part of it allows for the lease of the harbor proper for DLNR.

Do you approve? Area representative? Yeah. Okay. Our area representative.

Okay. Senator, do you approve? Okay. We're good to go. Shall we vote?

All right. Voting on SB 2367, the recommendation is to pass with a conference draft. I'll vote aye. [roll call].

I take the vote for the house.

Yes, please.

[roll call].

All right, adopted.

Good job. Thank you. Okay. Next up we have HB 1710 relating to historic reservation. On the house side we have myself, Emslet, and Miyake as co chairs and Shanizu as manager.

For the Senate myself as chair with co chair Rhodes and Senator Lamasana.

Okay. So this one, I believe we do have finance approval on our side, do we? Yes. Yes. We have finance approval on our side.

So the basically, we took the the SD two version and on page one, we changed line seven to an applicable number. And page 20, we took out all the sandy soil issues all the sandy soil stuff, and we are adding Stripeville's project includes growing disturbing activity on a property that contains previous identified burials or semi tenants. That's basically the changes.

Yeah. I call that being

I do need my co chair.

good.

Can we

roll that to the end of the agenda? Sure. Sorry, end of this agenda today here. Okay.

So moving on, HB 2218 relating to DLNR. On the house side, we have myself, Mori Kawa as co chairs and Suva, is Suva here? She's my last manager. She's always hiding in the corner.

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

Okay, so we, do we have finance ministers? Yes. I think so. We do? Yes.

Okay.

I believe we have ways and means on

our side. Okay. Yes, we do. So basically, we're taking the SD SD two version and making it oh, yeah. Here we did.

So we're taking the SD two version and adding a cleaning date. So I are you ready to go? Yes. Okay. Anna, it's yes.

Upon approval. So on the house side, I vote aye. Maury Powell? Aye. Souza?

Aye. So may I take the vote for the Senate?

Yes.

Senator Lee? Aye. Senator Mori Walkie? Aye. Senator Chang?

Aye. We have a bill. Thanks.

Two yeah. SP 2,001 relating to Banyan Drive Community Development District. So the Senate myself as chair with co chair Inouye and Senator Kanuha.

So on the house side, we have myself and representative Keo Kakuiloy and as co chairs and Kush and Shimizu as managers.

Thanks, I think on this one we're just waiting release.

Yes, we don't have release on our side.

We roll this to tomorrow 9AM here in Conference Room 229.

Yes. Okay, moving on, our last bill on the agenda, HB306 relating to the relating to state water code penalties. On the outside you have myself, Harness, Morikawa as co chairs, and she is your manager.

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

K. So we don't have finance approval on this. Can we roll this over to tomorrow? Yes. 51929.

Shall we go back?

Yes. So

going back to HD 17 10, may I take the vote for this? I vote Aye. Representative oh, wait. Oh, good. Representative Edelson?

Aye. Representative Miyake? Aye. Representative Shiza? Aye.

No. Thanks. Good.

Do you have another one? Next one. We we have another one. Yeah.

It's the 09:01 agenda.

Oh, it's done. Okay. It's the 09:01 agenda. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's another different one.

Okay. So we'll gamble on and gamble right back. Right? So

Okay. We're convening the conference committee on our 09:01 a. M. Agenda here in State Capitol Conference from 02:29. Up first is SB 3253 relating to conservation.

For the Senate, myself as chair with co chairs Gabbard and Richards.

Yeah. On the house side, you have myself, Moen, and Laurie Cara as co chairs, and she is draft manager.

Thanks. We have I'm releasing our side on this one for a draft agreed upon.

We have, do I have my memo on? Are we good? No. We don't have waste finance on our side.

Okay. Can we roll this to 09:00 here in Conference Room 229 tomorrow?

Yes. Join it. Put it to our other agenda. Our 9AM agenda.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah. Okay. 9AM tomorrow here in 229. Is that it? That's it, right?

Yeah. Okay. And with that, we are

adjourned. Hey. Good morning, everybody. This is our we are reconvening our conference committee meeting. It is Thursday, 04/30/2026.

It's 09:20am. We are in Conference Room 229 at the State Capitol. We have one bill on our agenda. It's HB 2104 relating to the burial council. So I think we came to an agreement.

All we had to do is to change, to give a clean date, and we have finance clearance on this.

Yep. On the Senate side, we have myself as chair, Senator Kanuha as cochair, and Senator de court as manager.

So on the house side, we have myself, Harness is to my left, Morikawa is to my right, and Shimizu is to my right. So we have quorum.

Okay. We have quorum as well.

Okay. So may I take the vote? Please. What's that? Oh, yeah.

So we'll make it upon approval. And let me just read the the synopsis of the disguise. Extends the time to fill vacancies that occur during This is the most important. Yeah. Extends the time to fill vacancies that occur during an Island Barrier Council term, a member's term, provides per diem compensation in the form of a stipend for the Island Barrier Council members representing geographic regions.

Adjust the Island Burial Council's quorum for business to be a majority of the appointed council members, but no fewer than three members. Okay. So Can we recess someone? Sure. Okay.

We're on recess. Okay. Gambling back in for our conference committee meeting on HB 2104. So I forgot to mention that we are taking OHA's amendments that OHA, a council member is appointed by represented by the geographic regions may receive a stipend and OHA will be paying it'll be coming out of OHA. Yeah.

Paid paid for by the office of Hawaiian affairs, and that was proposed by OHA. So we'll be adding that, and I just forgot to mention that. Yeah. That's in our CD one.

It is in our CD one and and Senate concurs.

Okay. Thank you. So I'll take the vote for the house side. I vote aye. Representative Tarnas?

Aye. Representative Morikawa? Aye. Representative Sheehan? Aye.

May I take the vote for the Senate? Please. Senator Richards? Aye. Senator Kanuha?

Aye. Senator Descartes? Aye. You have a bill.

Thank you. Why not?

So Why not? It's why not tell me. Okay. So Why not? Senator Richards, your amendment to sell Descartes car is accepted.

Good morning. Reconvening for our culture and the arts bills. It is Thursday, 04/30/2026, 10:30am in Conference Room 229. Up first, we have HB 1815, h d one s d one relating to the state foundation on culture and the arts. On behalf of the house, we have myself and representative Kyokokopolelo as co chairs, representatives Quinlan and Alcos as managers.

for the Senate myself as chair with co chair Inouye and Senator DeCote.

Thank you

Okay. I believe we have agreement on the CD one, and we have, release from Fin. Do you have WAM release?

Yes. We do. Can we vote on this? Yes. Can I take the vote for the house?

Oh, it's okay. Okay. To explain again from yesterday, the current draft of the CD is moving forward with the the grants for standardizing the grants for state foundation for culture and the arts so that they can appropriate funding from the performing arts special fund. And then we are also transferring the state foundation on culture and the arts from DAGS to DVET. We've removed the appropriation for the temporary positions and the legislative coordinator.

Sounds good.

Okay. Yay. Can I take the vote? Please.

Okay. I vote aye. Representative Keohokapalole? Aye. Representative Quinlan?

Aye. Representative Alcos? Aye. And for the Senate, chair Lee?

Aye.

Co chair Inouye? Aye. Member Decoy. Decoy. Aye.

Yay. Adopted. You got a feel. Yay. Thank you so much, Senator.

Yeah. I'll speak.

Yeah. Moving on to SB 3007, Reliance Culture and the Arts

On behalf of the house, it is myself and representative Hartsfield as co chairs, representative Alcos as manager.

Thanks. I think we're just waiting on release on this one. Can we roll this to same time?

Yeah. Tomorrow. Yes.

Yep. 10:30. Friday, 10:30am here in Conference Room 229.

Thank you so much, Senator.

Thank you. We're adjourned.

Welcome, and we are reconvening the House and Senate Conference Committee meeting. Today is Thursday, 04/30/2026. The time is 11AM, Conference Room 229. We are conferencing on HB 2474 relating to international relations. On behalf of the House, we have myself as chair, Hassia as co chair, and members, Pam and Gideon.

Thank you for the Senate myself as chair with co chairs, DeCoite and Kanuha.

Chair, we have an agreed CD1 and we are still waiting on FIN release.

Yes.

Is it okay if we roll over tomorrow, April I mean, May, 11AM at Room 229?

Yes.

Perfect. We are adjourned.

And on behalf of the house, myself as chair, Hasho and Pasi as co chairs, and members, Gideon.

Yes. We've released on our side of who we're waiting for you guys.

Oh, you have one release?

Yes. Wow. We're ready.

Do we have been released? We do not have been released.

Okay.

Moving on to the next item, we have HB 2429 relating to tax expenditure evaluation. On behalf of the house, myself as chair, Yamashita as co chair, members, Hassy, Tam, and Gideon.

I'm the Senator myself. My co chair and Quebec.

At this moment, we do have an agreed CD one, and we are waiting for a fin release. Do you have one release? Nope. Okay. Chair, is it okay to roll over Friday, April 31, 801, Room 411?

Is it May 1? May 1. I apologize. 05/01/2026, Friday, 08/2001, Room floor left. Perfect.

Next up is gonna be 2252259 On my side, chair, so client's cochair and cochair.

And on the house side, we have myself as chair, Hasea as cochair, members, Tam and Giddey.

Perfect.

Moving on to fourth item on the agenda. We have HB 2546 relating to tax credit for research activities. On behalf of the house, we have myself as chair, as the as co chair, members, Tam and Gideon.

I'm excited. I just want to share.

We also have an agreed CD one on this one, and but we are still waiting for a release. Rolling over to May '8 zero one, conference Room for eleven. Perfect. We have on behalf of the house, myself as chair, Kush, Hassia as co chairs, members, Tam and Gideon.

First of waiting, it's one of the actually, we've been working on the CD one and waiting for them to read about we will to Friday same time. You don't want

to. Perfect.

Moving on to Senate bill 2907. Just do you want HD three related to marine affairs on the Senate side with myself as chair, Senator.

And on the house side, we have myself as chair, Hashem Hassy as co chairs and member idiot.

So I believe you're doing an agreement with CD one. So I'm just waiting for one.

Yes.

And we're going to.

Perfect. Last item on the agenda, we have HB 2583 relating to the economic development. On behalf of the house, we have myself as chair, Massey as co chair and members, Tam and Gideon. We have been working on the CD one and believe we have sent it over and also waiting for families. Rolling over to 05/01/2026, 08:01, Conference Room 411. Meeting adjourned.

And on the house side, we have myself as chair, Hasea's co chair and member of Gideon.

So let's move to Friday, March 2026. You won't be in the second or last.

Perfect. Moving on to the last item on the agenda. We have HB 1576 relating to filming. We have on behalf of the house, myself as chair, Asi as co chair, and members, Tam and Gideon. We also have an agreed city one, and we just need Finn and Lampalis.

Perfect. Let's roll over to 05/01/2026, 801, Conference Room 411.

Hi. Morning. Convening joint committee. This Thursday, April 30th. We're in Conference Room 411 at 10:30am. On the agenda, we have Senate Bill 2577, SD 2, HD 1, relating to sports tourism. On the Senate side, myself as Chair, Senator Wakai Co-Chair, and Senator Fevella as Manger.

On behalf of the House, myself as Chair, Ilagan Co-Chair.

So Rep, I believe you have insertion of funds and a green fee for this, which is we've agreed to defer the bill.

Yep. I agree.

Sounds good. Thank you. We are adjourned.

Good morning. I'm reconvening this joint conference committee. It is Thursday, 04/30/2026, 9AM. We're in Conference Room 16. First on the agenda, we have HB 159 relating to workers' compensation for the house.

We have myself, Ramayatayoshi, Repley as co chairs, or Garcia as manager.

K. On behalf of the Senate, it's Elefante as chair. Co chairs are Ke'ohokalole, Rhodes, and Kanuha.

So for this, we do have a FIN release, but I believe we're awaiting a release on your end as well.

We don't have any word of release on our end.

Okay. Sounds good. So we'll roll this over to tomorrow. Oh, this is May 1, 9AM, Conference Room 16. Yes.

Great. Next, we have HB 2271, making emergency appropriation for public employment cost items. For the House, we have myself, Rep Lee as Co-Chairs, Rep Reyes Oda as Manager.

On behalf of the Senate, it's Elefante as Chair, Kanuha as Co-Chair, Ihara as a Member.

Alright. For this one, we'll be rolling over to tomorrow on May 1, 9am, Room 16. Is that okay?

Yep. That works.

Next, HB 2272, making emergency appropriations for public employment cost items. For the house, we have myself, Reppley as co chairs, operator Zoda as manager. Hey.

On behalf of the senators, Elefante as chair, co chair Kanuha, and member Ihara.