Conference Committee

Hey. Good morning, everybody. We are reconvening our conference committee meeting today. It's Friday, May 1. It is 9AM.

We're in Conference Room 229 at the state capital. First up, we have HB 2592 relating to money chaos for stewardship authority. On the house side see, I remember this one. You have myself, Garrett, and Tarnas, Kusch as co chairs, and Marikawa, and Shimizu as managers.

Thank you to the Senate myself with co chairs Kim, Rhodes, and Inouye.

Okay, so I believe we have an agreement on this, and we have money approval. Right, money?

I need a

Question.

We have a proviso, just to make sure. Yes. Release provided that the rule shall be sent by 12/31/2029 on page eight, line 10.

Okay. Yeah. So that's basically the SD two version.

There were so many.

Yes. With I think Okay. Okay. So the proposed basically, the proposed draft three. No.

Mark. Mark. Yeah.

Take a recess? Yeah.

You know what? Recess.

Oh, never mind. We're back in on our 9AM agenda. So we're, reconvening on HB 2592 relating to Mauna Kea. So we do have an agreement. We're gonna go with the with the with the CD one.

What we're adding is we're adding a new section three to amend the HRS one seventy one dash three to clarify that MKSOA has management authority over the Mauna Kea lands and clarifying that any lease lease extensions during the transition period are not subject to approval of DLNR or or LUC, and conforming dates to reflect the new transfer date of December 12/01/2029, and technical non tech and tech amendments for consistent consistency and style and making an effective date upon approval.

And provided and now also another provided that rule shall be sent by 12/31/2029 as on page eight line 10. Right? According to the amendment.

Yes. Yes.

Are we okay with that?

Yes. We're apparently waiting for one person to walk in momentarily.

Okay. Can we vote on? Move on. Move on? We need them to vote.

Oh, okay. Can we Okay. Move on.

So We'll come back to it as soon as

As soon as they walk in? Sure. So, next up, SB 2401. Oh, that's yours.

Go ahead. Yeah. It's me, Senator Moriwaki, and Senator Lanza.

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

Thanks. We have draft from earlier. Don't have FinWAM on this one yet.

Okay. Us too. So we have

1135 here in is it this room?

Yes.

Here in, Conference Room 229.

Okay. Stop. Send it down.

3253, linked to conservation is up next. It's me, Gabbard, Richards for the Senate.

On the outside, we have myself, Roland, Marikawa, and.

Thanks. We have agreement on this one. Do you have a FIN release?

No, we don't.

Move this to 11:35 here in this room.

Yes. And

229.

Okay.

And SB 2001 relating to Banyan Drive Community Development District. It's me, Inouye, and Kanuha.

Yeah. On the House side, we have me, Sue Lee Loy, and Kusch as and she needs her as coaches.

We do 11:35 for this one as well?

Yes.

You're in 229?

Yes.

And the last one's yours.

So next up is our last bill is HB306 relating to state water code and penalties on the house side. Do you have myself, harness, Terry Powell?

And for this. And for the Senate, me, Rhodes and Hashimoto.

So can we move this to and we have 35 to this room. Yes. Today, do we have do we have the members to vote? So going back to. Yes.

HB2592. May I take a vote? Please. Okay. So for the house, we have myself.

I vote aye. Garrett is not here. Hannes? Aye. Krish?

Aye. Rory Cowell? Aye. She needs it. Aye.

Great. May I take the vote for the Senate? Yes. Senator Lee. Aye.

Kim is excused. Rhodes. Aye.

Inouye. Aye. Thank you. We have a bill. Thank you,

And with that, we are adjourned on our 9AM agenda. Good.

Alright. Good morning. We're convening the conference committee on our 10:30AM agenda here in State Capitol Conference Room 229 on SB 3007 relating to culture and arts for the Senate and myself, Senator Inouye, and Senator Lamassao.

On behalf of the house, we have, myself and representative Hartzfeld as co chairs, representative Alcos as manager. Thank you.

I believe in this one, we have released on our side.

And we also have released from Ben.

Great. Can I take the vote? For the our recommendation is to pass SB 3073007 with a conference draft.

I'll vote aye. Co-chair Inouye?

Aye.

And Senator Lamosao?

Aye.

Chair Kapela?

Co-chair Hartsfield?

Aye.

Yes, please, Senator.

May I take the vote for the House?

Congratulations.

Aye.

And Representative Alcos.

W. R. Okay. Thank you.

Recommendation adopted.

Thank you. Hey.

Congratulations. Yay. Hoping a lot.

Welcome, everyone, to reconvene for the House and Senate Conference Committee meeting. Today is Friday, 05/01/2026. The time is 11:04. We are at Conference Room 229 and conferencing on HB 2474 relating to international relations. On behalf of the House, myself as Chair, Hussey as co Chair, Members Tam and Gideon.

Thanks for the Senate, myself, Senators DeCoite and Kanuha.

Chair we do have an agreed CD1. We also have FIN and WAM releases, and we just need quorum. Would it be okay if we roll over to 11:40 today at room Oh. Oh. Let's not roll over yet.

Just disregard the rollover. Alright. Oh thanks. Could I get the vote? While they're looking at that, I just want to share with everybody that this bill authorizes the state to enter into non binding international, cooperative agreements with national governments, national, ministries, departments or agencies, provincial or regional governments or international intergovernmental bodies relevant, relevant to the interests of the state or international partner.

The amendments will expand the definition of sister state or province partnerships to include a partnership between the state and perfecture or foreign nation. It also requires the Hawaii Sister State and International Partnerships Commission to evaluate how a sister state or province partnership or international cooperative agreement will enhance certain key state initiatives. And the act is going to be effective 07/01/2026. Chair, if you're okay, are you ready to take a vote?

Yes. Okay.

On the House side for HB 2474, myself as Chair votes aye. Co Chair Hussey? Aye.

Member Tam is excused. Member Gideon is excused. And on the Senate, is it okay if I take the vote?

Yes.

Chair Lee. Aye. Co Chair Decoite. Aye. And Co Chair Kanuha. Aye. Chair got itself a bill.

Thank you. Can

Can we take quick quick recess?

I'm gonna come back to the conference committee. Realize the technical error. We're gonna push this to 11:40 in Room 411 so we can make sure this is done right.

Perfect.

Okay now we're adjourned.

We're convening the 11:05am conference here in Room 229, the state capitol on SB 2599 relating to development. Chairs having conferred, we're gonna roll this over to the end of our 11:35AM agenda. What room is that in? In Room 229. 11:35AM and 02:29.

11:35AM agenda on a number of bills. We're gonna take a couple out of order here beginning with Senate bill 2001 relating to the Banyan Drive Community Development District. And for the Senate, it's me, Senators Inouye and Penua.

Okay. On the House side, you have myself, Keohokapu Lee Loy and Kusch as Shimizu.

Thanks. I believe we have release on this measure.

Yes. We have finance release. Alright. And we have quorum.

We also have quorum. Alright. Oh, yeah. And let's note that, within the measure we have $2,375,000 in A funds and $250,000 in B funds.

Okay. And we are basically taking the the, ACDA's version and we're adding a linear descendant that is but they're not on the main board. Correct?

It's a community board.

Yes. Yes. And the the date will be upon approval? Okay. Okay.

Alright. Just just to confirm that when we speak about the main board is that the HCTA in its entirety as its own authority and the community for Banyan Drive is just one sector of the many other community development plans. Okay. Yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Sorry. The effective date is 07/01/2026.

Thank you. Okay.

And you mentioned the number the positions ended. Good. Yep. You're all set.

Okay. Voting on SB 2001. Recommendation is to pass with a conference draft. I'll vote aye. Chair Inouye?

Aye. Thank you.

Senator Kanuha? Aye. And take a vote for the House.

Yes, please. Chair Hashem. Aye. Co chair Keohokapu Lee Loy. Aye. Representative Kusch. Aye.

And representative Shimizu. Aye. Alright, recommendation adopted.

Okay, can we move on to HB306? Yes. Okay, so on the House side, this is relating to state water code penalties. On the house side you have myself, Representative Tarnas, and Morikawa are present, and representative Shimizu is present also.

Thank you. For the Senate, myself, senators Rhodes, and Hashimoto. Oh, there's

Okay. So, we have money released on this. There is no funding for this. However, we The conference draft is essentially the SD one version, but we're taking out the the penalties will be $5,000 for the first fine and then $15,000 for the second fine. And we're adding language in there If take your time, there's the way we're actually. Oh, we are?

Yes. Okay. Keep breathing. Okay. Okay.

Where did my. Oh, Gary's video.

Okay. And now I gotta stop.

And then we have stream. For people that violate the stream, not fines. Okay. We have language regarding streams and if they violate the code. Right?

And they don't maintain. And that you're also not, I gotta read this one. Wasn't yeah. It shall be a violation to fail to maintain natural stream, and there's another one I need to read.

Just give me a minute here. That they are not allowed to take Waterways. Waterways. Yes. Unless we have House and Senate approval.

Those are the major changes for the city.

Sounds good.

Good. May I take the votes? We're effective date 07/01/2026. So, may I take the vote? Yes.

So, on the house side you have myself, both aye. Representative Tarnas? Aye. Morikawa. Aye. Shimizu. Aye.

May I take the vote for the Senate? Yes. Senator Lee. Aye. Rhoad. Aye. Hashimoto. Aye. Okay. Thank you.

We have a bill.

Thank you. Oh, here's the.

Thank you.

Moving on to SB 2401 relating to regional shoreline mitigation districts for the Senate. It's myself, senators Moriwaki and Lomasao. Hold on.

Two zero 2401? Yeah. Okay. On the House side, we have myself, Morikawa, and Cochair Shimizu.

Thanks. I think we have agreement on a framework for this one, but we need can we roll this to 12:45?

Is 12:45 okay? Does that work? Hold on. Okay. 12:45 is okay.

12:45 here in Conference Room? Yeah. Conference Room 229.

Today.

And then lastly on the agenda SB 3253 relating to conservation. It's myself, senators Gabbard, and Richards.

Okay. On the house side, you have myself, Loewen, Morikawa, and Kouchi Shimizu.

Thanks. I think we have WAM release on our side.

We have no finance release on our side.

Okay. Can we roll this one to, also to 12:45 here in Conference Room 229?

Okay. Thank you very much. Is that everything? I think is I'm missing anything? Oh, wait.

We have the Stadium 1.

Oh, yeah. We're in the session. Okay. Second agenda.

Second agenda moving into our 11:35, reconvene on SB 2599 relating to development. It's myself, senators DeCoite, and Hashimoto.

On the House side, you have myself, Evelyn, Todd, and she needs it, which maybe,l She's Yeah. Todd's not here. So our finance release finance person is not here. We have we have, finance release on this.

We I believe there was a technical Oh, okay.

Technical error on lease language that is being worked out right now. Okay. Can we roll this also to 12:45 here in this room? Yes. In 229?

Okay. Good.

Okay. And then that is it, right? Yep. Okay. So we're done with the 11:35 agendas.

Alright. Convening the Conference Committee on SB 2999 relating to a Clean Fuel Standard. It's myself and the new house of the law.

On behalf of the house, myself, Co-chairs; Kila and Perruso, members; Quinlan and Matsumoto.

Thanks. Can we roll this to 12:40 here in Conference Room 229?

Yes.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Alright. We're convening the, conference committee on SB 2999 relating to a clean fuel standard. It's It's myself, Senator Kanuha, and Fevella.

On behalf of the House, myself, Co-Chairs, Kila, and Caruso, Members Quinlan and Matsumoto.

Thank you. We have release on our side.

And we have release on our side. Okay. To our Chair.

Thanks.

And this bill directs DOT to make rules to establish a clean fuel standard. The amendments were just to add some clarifying language about the cost control mechanism and some additional reporting requirements, I believe, and affecting the date. So yeah.

And adding in EV stuff.

Clarifying language around the credits for EV charging station owners.

Okay. Voting on SB 2999. Recommendation is passed with a CD. I'll vote aye. Co Chair Kanuha? Aye.

And Senator Fevella excused.

Can I take the vote for the House?

Yes, please.

Chair Lowen. Aye. Co Chair Kila, excused. Co Chair Peruso. Aye. Representative Quinlan. Aye.

And representative Matsumoto, excused. Okay. Thank you. Recommendation adopted. Okay.

And then Mark, you wanna open the line?

Yep. I tried to check-in I went by LAN, but I tried to check-in too.

Sorry. Sorry.

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. We're on our 2999 agenda, we're adjourned.

I will convene the conference committee on SB 2599, relating to Development for the Senate myself, Senators DeCoite and Hashimoto.

On the House side, we have myself.

Can you come to 0229?

Representative Evslin, and Todd present, and Shimizu is present.

Thanks. I believe we have an agreed draft and release on our side.

Yes. That's correct. We basically took the HD 3 version, added 4,900,000, 49,500,000, and added a clean date. What is this on?

On a please no.

July 1. Effective date of 07/01/2026, and we added in the 99-year lease provision.

Sounds good. Okay.

Good. So, shall we take, shall we take the vote?

Yes.

Okay. Voting on SB 2599, recommendation to pass with a conference draft. I'll vote aye.

Co-chair or DeCoite is excused. Senator Hashimoto?

Aye.

May I take a vote for the house?

Please do.

Chair Hashem?

Aye.

Representative Evslin?

Aye.

And Representative Todd?

Aye.

Okay. Recommendation. Oh, and I'm sorry, Representative Shimizu. My apologies.

No worries. Okay. Recommendation adopted. Can we move to SB 3253? Yes.

Just in time.

Okay. Oh, I'm sorry, we're gonna gavel out on that.

No, It's all on the same agenda. No.

No. Stadium 1 was different. So we'll dabble out stadium. Convening the conference committee on SB 3253, Blaine's Conservation. It's myself, Gabbard, and Richards.

Okay. On the House side, you have myself is present, Marikawa is present, and Shizu is present. No one is not here. So we have Chrome.

Okay. I believe we have release on our side.

Yep. No. We have release on our side.

Okay. Great. Thank you.

Sorry. Go ahead.

It's a pleasure to establish it.

No. Go ahead.

I would say it recognizes a nonprofit organization to assist the state with conservation sanctuaries.

Okay. Good. And we're just adding an effective date, 07/01/2026.

Yes.

Great.

Oh, sorry. Yeah. On the Senate based language. That's right. Yeah.

Alright. Voting on SB 3253. Recommendations to pass with a conference draft. I'll vote aye. Co Chair Gabbard? Aye. And Senator Richards? Aye.

I take a vote for the house?

Yes, please. Chair Hashem? Aye. Co chair Loewen? Aye.

Co chair Morikawa.

Aye.

And representative Shimizu. Sorry, Chair Lowen. Okay. All right. Recommendation adopted.

Thank you. So is that is that the last.

Twenty four zero one.

Oh, I'm sorry, 2401. Okay. Let's move to 2401, relating to Regional Shoreline Mitigation Districts. Myself, Senator Moriwaki, and Lamosao.

Okay. On the house side, you have myself present, Morikawa present, and Co-chair Shimizu present. So, we have quorum and we can vote.

Yes. I believe we're reading or confirming.

We have finance clearance. Of course-

We need to get we're working on WAM clearance right now.

Okay. So we-

I'll touch it in a second.

Unless we have it.

Alright. Should I call Sherry?

Shall we recess?

Sure. Let's take a recess.

We're reconvening the committee on SB 2401. We'd like to roll this to 5pm in Room 016. With that, we're adjourned.

I'm calling to order this Joint Conference Committee Meeting. It is Friday, 05/01/2026, 08:45 am. We're in Conference Room 16. First, I'd like to say Happy May Day, Lady, Laulau day, and the last day of conference.

And happy aloha Friday.

Yes. And Friday. Alright. First on our agenda, we have HB 1656 HD1 SD1, relating to Indebtedness to the State. For the house, we have myself, Rep. Lee as co-chairs, Rep. Garcia as manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, co-chair Kim, and member Ihara.

Yeah. So for this, we're still just waiting on release. Yeah?

Yes. We do have an agreement on the proposed CD1, so we're just also waiting on WAM release on our end.

Okay. Great. We'll be rolling this over to today, 12PM. Same Conference Room 16.

Yes. May 1, 12PM here. Conference Room 16. That works for us.

Alright. Thank you. Moving on to HB 1658 HD1 SD1, relating to Collective Bargaining. For the house, we have myself, Rep. Lee as co-chairs, Rep. Reyes Oda manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, co chair Kim, and member Lamosao.

Alright. So for this one, we do have an agreement on the CD.

Yes.

And we have FIN and WAM release, Isu?

We don't have release on our end.

Okay.

For WAM that's my under that's my understanding.

Okay.

So we could just roll this over to 12PM, Room 16th, same day today, May 1st.

Yep. That works for us.

Moving on to HB 1661, relating to Cafeteria Plans. For the house, we have myself, Rep Lee as Co-chairs, Rep. Kapela and Reyes Oda as manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, Co-chair Kim, member for Fevella.

For this, I believe we do have an agreement on the CD. Yeah. We do have FIN release DI1.

I our WAM designee is not here, and I don't believe we have any WAM release.

Okay. Let's roll this over to today, May 1 at 12PM, Conference Room 16.

Yep. That works for us.

Great.

Next, we have HB 1663 relating to Reimbursement of Public Employers and Employees. For the house, we have myself and Rep. Lee as co-chairs, Rep. Kapela and Reyes Oda as managers.

On behalf of the Senate, it is myself as chair, Co-chair; McKelvey and Kim and, member Lamosao.

For this one, I believe we have agreement on a CD. However, we are waiting. FIN release on our end?

Yes. That's correct. We don't have WAM release on our end.

Okay. Let's roll this over to today, 12PM, Room 16.

Yep. That works for us. Great.

Finally, let's have HB1664, relating to Hawaii Employer Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. For the house, we have myself, Rep. Lee as Co-chairs, Rep. Kapela and Reyes Oda as manager.

Yeah. On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, Co-chairs; Rhoads and Kim, member Ihara.

Alright. I believe we do have agreement on the CD. However, we are waiting FIN and WAM to release.

Yes. That's correct.

Great. Let's roll this over to today, 12PM, Room 16.

Yep. That works.

Thank you. Seeing no further business on this agenda, this hearing is adjourned.

Okay. Good morning, everyone. I am reconvening this Joint Conference Committee Meeting.

It is Friday, 05/01/2026, 9am. We're in Conference Room 16. Oh, it's Conference Room 16. Okay. I'll see.

Nope. Okay. We'll take the things a little bit out of agenda order of the agenda today. So we'll be starting off with HB 2335. Is that okay okay with you, sir?

We have no objections to you taking it out of order.

Okay. Thank you. First, HB 2335 relating to Workforce Development. For the house. We have myself, Lee as Co-chairs, or Reyes Oda as manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as chair, Co-chairs McKelvey and Moriwaki.

Okay. For this, I think we're still working on it. So let's roll this over to today, 12PM, Room 16. Is that okay?

Yeah. That works. And then, chair, would you wanna go back to the top of the agenda?

Yes. Let's.

Or wherever you wanna start.

Yeah. If we could go back to HB 2271. Okay. This is making emergency appropriations for public employment cost items for the house. We have myself, Ripley as co chairs, Reyes Oda as manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as Chair, Kanuha as co chair, member Ihara.

Okay. So for this bill, we do have an agreement on the CD, and we do have FINRA lease.

Yes. And we do have an agreement on the proposed CD. Just you wanna read which Oh, wait. Quarter?

Yes. 2026-3438 HB2271 CD1.

Yep. HMSO propose Yes. One. Yes. Okay.

And I'll be reading the description of the bill if that's okay.

Yeah. Let me check if we have WAM release. Do we have WAM release? Yep. Okay.

We are good.

Okay. Great. So, HB 2271, this makes emergency appropriations for the members of bargaining units one and ten and their excluded counterparts to resolve issues related to temporary hazard pay for fiscal years 2526. For salary and fringe, this includes $95,775,309 for fiscal year '26. This is effective upon approval.

Okay. For the house, I'll be taking the vote now. Yes.

And thank you for your work on this, Chair.

Oh, thank you. Okay. So I vote aye. Rep. Aye.

Rep. Aye. May I take the vote for Senate? Please. Chair O'Fante? Aye. Senator Khalilha? Aye. Senator Yahara? Excused.

Congratulations. We have a bill. Aye.

And after you're done with that, did you wanna go to 2272? Yes. Just have to initial.

Alright. Moving on to HB 2272, making emergency appropriations for public employment plus items for the House. We have myself, Rep Lee as co chairs, Reyes Oda's manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as Chair, co chair Kanuha, and member Ihara.

Alright. I believe we do have agreement on this CD. And to just read the footer, it is 2026-3425 HB 2272 CD1 HMSO proposed.

Say the last part? Oh, hang on here.

2026-3425 HB 2272 CD1. Yep. Okay. And we do have fin release on our end.

Do we have ways and means release? Yep.

Okay. We do. Okay. Great. I'll just briefly read the description of the bill.

HB 2272, this makes emergency appropriation for members of bargaining unit eleven and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the state and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal years biennium '25 to '27. For salaries and fringe, this includes $1,142,586 for fiscal year's 26, $2,000,416 and 29 doll sorry. 2,000,416 and $29 for fiscal year's '27. For ETF amounts, it includes $231,046 for fiscal years '26 and $455,925 for fiscal years '27. This is effective upon approval.

Yep. Okay. Great. I'll be taking the vote for the house. Myself, I vote aye.

Rep Lee? Aye. Rep. Aye. May I take the vote for Senate?

Please. Joe Elefante? Aye.

Senator Ihara? Excuse. Congratulations. We have a bill. So

Got some house bills out.

Yeah. Thank you. Okay. We will be moving on to HB 2468 relating to internship programs. For my for the House, we have myself, Rep Lee as co chairs, Ripley as manager.

Okay. On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as Chair. Co Chairs, Moriwaki and Lamosao.

And for this, I believe we're working on a new CD. So

Yes. That's correct.

Let's roll this over to today, 12PM, Room 16. Yep. Thank you. Next, we have oh, sorry. This is Senate bill.

Yep. We'll go to Senate Bill 2567, Senate Draft two, House draft two, relating to petitions to temporarily restrain and enjoin harassment of an employee. On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as Chair, co chairs Kanuha and Rhodes, and member Favella.

For the House, we have myself, Rep Tarnas, or I believe as co chairs, Rep Gideon as manager.

Okay. For this one, we do have an agreement on the CD. We're just waiting for WAM and FIN release. Yes. That's correct.

Okay. So why don't we also roll this over to later today, May 1 at twelve noon here in Conference Room 16? Great.

Yep. And I guess we are yeah. I guess we just have to

Do you wanna go we didn't cover one bill at the top of the agenda. I don't know if you wanna take that up or not.

Yeah. Let's take it up, and then we should probably roll it then.

Okay. Right. We need their one. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yes. Right? Because let's take a short recess.

Short recess.

Okay. Reconvening this joint committee hearing. We're moving on HB 159 relating to workers' compensation for the house. We have myself, Rep Matayoshi Rep Lee as co chairs, Rep Garcia as manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as Chair, Co Chairs Keohokalole, Rhodes, and Kanuha.

Alright. I believe we do have an agreement on

Oh, and member Lamasao. Sorry.

Oh, who, who is excused? Sorry.

No. No. I believe we do have an agreement on the CD. Yes. We do.

And the footer for that is 2026-3369 HB 15O9 CD1 HMSO proposed dash 4.

Yep. That's correct. Great.

And we do have fin release? We do release.

Okay. Do we have ways and means release? Yep. Yep. We do.

Great. Okay.

So to read the description, this bill requires an employer to file a response either accepting or objecting to a treatment plan within ten days of receipt, imposes a monetary penalty up to $1,000 if an employer does not file a response within the ten day period unless there was a good cause for the delay. Clarifies that a treatment plan is deemed accepted if an employer fails to fill certain documents within ten day period. Imposes penalties on employers found to have improperly denied a treatment plan.

This bill is effective on 07/01/2026.

Yep. That works, Ross. And thank you members for being present.

Thank you. Alright. I'll be taking the vote for the house. Myself, I vote aye, Rep Matayoshi. Alright. Rep Lee Alright.

Rep Gideon. I'm sorry. Not kidding. Rep Garcia.

Aye.

Thank you. May I take the vote for the Senate? Please. Alright. Chair Alfontin.

Aye. Senator Keohokalole. Aye. Senator Rhodes. Senator Kanuha.

Aye. Senator Lamasal. Excuse. Congratulations. They have a bill.

I'll go.

Thank you, leader Kanuha, for being here. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yep. Thank you. Might have to pick a moment.

Alright. So we've got it. You wanna adjourn?

Yeah. Alright. With no further business, this hearing is adjourned.

Alright. Welcome, everybody. We convene conference committee, 05/01/2026, 10:20AM, Room 16, several Senate bills for a sub Senate bill 411, Senate draft two, House Draft one. I don't believe our lead Chair is here. So with your indulgence, I'd like to roll onto the next one.

Senate Bill 2268, Senate Draft two, House Draft one, relating equity. This is for universal changing accommodations, public accommodations. I have to send it myself as Chair, co chair San Buenaventura, Kovali, and Kanuha, manager Owa.

For the House we have myself, I believe, is co chairs or Pierrick as a manager.

Great. We shot a CD one over there. I think we addressed the concerns of the house and so far as exempting DOE, and I believe we have agreement.

Yes. We are in agreement.

Okay. We still need to tighten up and finalize the FinWAM on this, though.

You wanna hang out together again at 12:55PM in Conference Room 16 today? Yes. Let's do that. Great. We will see you in this room today at 12:55PM of Room 16.

Yes. That's right.

Hopefully, we'll be able to move on that. Okay? With that, we'll move on the next one. Senate Bill 2543 Senate Draft two, House draft two, building state construction projects. Yep.

This is a state construction office manager with design review, special fund, and positions and appropriation. I have to send it myself as Chair, Co Chair, Wakai Elefante, manager Owa.

For the house, we have myself and Rep Hasham, Rep Lee as Co Chairs, or Matsumoto's manager.

Okay. Great. On this one here, I believe we have agreement. We just need the infamous wind bam Wham fin release. Right?

Didn't Wham, Wham, Wham.

Yes. That is correct.

Alright. Very good. You can tell I have a lot of caffeine this morning. Okay.

With your indulgence holding.

Them. Wow. We gotta squeeze them today. Okay.

With your indulgence, can we cruise back here at 12:55PM in Conference Room 16?

That works for us.

Right on, Washington. Okay. Great. So we will go ahead and see everybody back here at 12:55PM. Conference Room 16.

We will recess to await the lead Chair of Waterland. Recess. Thank you. Back again, there was one more bill on the agenda. Senate Bill 2601, Senate Draft two, House Draft one.

We are still awaiting the Chair of the Committee, so we'd like to recess until we can pick up those other two items. Everybody good? Alright. Recess. Hello.

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the conference committee here in Room 16 1020 AM agenda. We're gonna return back to Senate Bill 411, Senate Draft two, House Draft one. This is small boat harbors and state parks. The use of funds for r and m with reports back to the legislature twice a year on behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Co Chair Lee, and Moriwaki, and manager Fevella.

Yeah. On the House side, you have myself, representative Mori Kawa. Is not here.

Ejeta coordinating committee is next. Thank you. On this one here, I believe we have agreement on the language, but we're waiting, hopefully, at this point for FIN release because we do have WAM release. Yeah. Okay?

You wanna try to get back together at 12:30pm at Room 16th? No.

And how about you, like

yeah.

We might might be a little bit late, but yes.

Okay. No. That's fine if you're late. We'll just go ahead and recess out because this is important we get this done so we can actually see work done on our small boat harbors with a lot of money sitting in the fund. So it's worth coming back for, I think.

So, yeah, we'd love to come back. 12:12 o'clock. 12:00. Sounds good. Oh, 12:12 thirty.

My 12:30.

Yeah. Clock to me twelve. Okay. Cool. It's Friday.

Right? Okay.

So we're coming back here at 12:30PM in Conference Room 16 on Senate Bill 411. Okay. Next up, we'll go to the final bill on the agenda, which is Senate Bill 2601 Senate Draft two House Draft one relating to procurement. This is a certification of available funds with a threshold amount and, of course, a position for the CPO, Baptist the Senate myself as Chair, Co Chair Moriwaki, and Rhodes, manager Favella.

Thank you. On behalf of the house, we have Co Chairs, representatives Tarnas and Kusch, and managers, representatives Poipoi and Shimizu.

Great. On this one here, I do believe we have agreement, and we have release or no?

You you sent and and thank you for your work on this, and we've looked at the CD one. I'm okay with it. I have not received finance release. Okay.

We do have WAM release, and so you wanna try to come back at 12:30, and I'll be here. Beautiful. Love it. Okay. So we're gonna gather back here at 12:30PM in Conference Room 16 to hopefully be able to reconcile with release twenty six zero one and move it to upstairs.

Okay. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you being here and for your patience. Aloha, everybody. Welcome to the conference committee.

This is on Senate Bill 2930. Give me one second for an agenda. I apologize. This is relating to state risk management revolving fund. This is the fund to rebuild the Lahaina School of the risk management revolving fund with reports to the legislature and appropriation as well.

And on behalf of the Senate, myself as Chair, Co Chairs Hashimoto, and manager is.

For the house, we have myself, replete as Co Chairs, Gideon as manager.

Okay. Thank you very much. On this one, I believe we have a CD one that we have agreement on.

Yes. And we do have FIN release on this.

We have WAM release as well. With your indulgence, is it okay if we can just take a very brief recess so we can get our WAM designee here and we can vote on it? Okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.

We're gonna take a brief recess recess. Alright. Welcome back, everybody. We are here for Senate Bill 2930. We have read out the agreed upon description of the measure.

It is $200,000,000 from the RMRF, and I'm told that I need to read out the barcode of the CD one. And so I will 2026-2474 SB 2930 CD1 SMA.

Dash 1. Yeah.

We have a launch. Okay. Great. Appreciate it. So with that, we'd like to go ahead, and may I take the vote on behalf of the house?

Briefly, may I read a breakdown of the 200,000,000?

Please do. Yes.

Great. So the total appropriation is 200,000,000. It's broken down as follows. $146,000,000 for planning design construction for the King Kamehameha Third Elementary School. This appropriation is contingent upon at least $40,000,000 being matched with the federal funds provided further that any funds reimbursed shall be returned to the funds from which the original expenditure was made.

$30,000,000 for planning design and construction of off-site infrastructure improvements surrounding King Kamehameha Third Elementary School. $12,000,000 for roadways surrounding the coming Kamehameha Third Elementary School, including planning, design and construction. Finally, another $12,000,000 for design and construction for the rebuild of Peers loading dock electrical systems and pavement resurfacing necessary to restore the Lahaina Small Boat Harbor. This is the effective date of 07/01/2026.

Okay. And these funds for the January and the 30 are coming from the SFA?

Yes. That is correct.

And I like just to make a note for this. This project is of most critical importance. We have safeguards in there. And if this thing should get screwed up, I swear to gosh, I will work my butt up to policy SFA. Okay?

So with that, can I take the vote of the house?

Absolutely. Chair Sayama. Aye.

Chair Lee. Aye. Representative Gideon. Aye. On behalf of the Senate, I vote yes.

Senator Hashimoto. Aye. And Senator O'Brien. Thank you very much. We have a bill.

Mahalo. Mahalo. Aloha. Welcome back, everybody. Conference committee, on one agenda item house and Senate 10:40AM, Room 16, Friday, 05/01/2026, Senate Bill 2075 SD one HD two relating to public procurement.

This is the local preference for Hawaii bidders and offers and competitive sealed bidding proposals on behalf of the Senate myself as Chair, CoChair of Wakai, manager for Favella.

And on behalf of the House, we have myself as Chair, Hashem as CoChair, and member Gideon.

Great. On this one, the only difference were the blanks. Right? And so we have the amounts that we've suggested to the money committee. So we're our we're in agreement on the actual bill itself.

Right? So you wanna try to get together, like, 04:30pm and Conference Room 411?

Perfect.

Perfect. Hopefully, we'll get released, and we can do this. Thank you, John. Thank you, Chair.

Well, welcome everybody. Conference on one agenda item house in Senate Room 16, 11:15AM, Friday, 05/01/2026. Senate Bill 2781. Senate Draft one, House, start two, blading lay. This is procurement lay with benchmarks and a, also, laboring requirements with penalties on behalf of myself as chair, McKelvey.

Kale Foley is is a Chair as well, Kanuha and manager. Oh.

And on behalf of the House, myself and Rep Kusch as Co Chairs and Rep Kaloa and Matsumoto as managers.

Great. Thank you. On this one, I know we've had some there was a serious departure from both sides on this bill. We recognize your concerns. However, in the interest of trying to make something happen, we toss the CD your way, which combines the two bills, which puts the working group into effect right away, but then establishes the statutory benchmarks of when they have to go to a certain percentage.

And then by the time the 100% thresholds reach all, that there'll be a complete bar on all state agencies using outside materials. This, I believe, gives a chance for the the growers and those impacted to come together with a plan, but puts pressure on them to actually produce a plan because otherwise the benchmarks kick in. So I'm hoping you guys can take that back, share it with the money committee. Maybe we could try one more time on this at 05:15 in Room 411.

Yep.

Thanks for your work on that.

Yeah.

Yeah. Appreciate it. I think, hopefully, we can make something happen because I think we're in a pretty good place here between us. So is that good?

Yeah. Alright. Thanks, guys, for being here. Appreciate it.

Reconvening on this joint conference committee. It is twelve, PM, Friday, 05/01/2026. We're in Conference Room 16. If might be able to take this, agenda out of order. Let's start with the HB 1661.

We have no objections to that. Great.

It's Yep.

Okay. HB 1661 relating to cafeteria plans for the house, we have myself, I believe, as Co Chairs, Kapella and Reza Oda's manager.

On behalf of the Senate is Elefante as Chair, Co Chair Kim, and member Favella.

Alright. I believe we have agreement on a CD. We also have FINRA lease on our end.

Yes. So we do have an agreement on the CD. And just to double check the CD footer Yes. If you wanna read that first.

26-3298 HB 1661 CD1 HMSO proposed. Yes.

And we do have our WAN designated here. Do we have release?

Yes. We do.

Oh, great.

Okay. So just to recap this bill, this requires the maximum contribution and carryover amounts for a public service flexible spending account plan to be set annually in accordance with the maximum amounts allowed under Section one two five of the internal revenue service code. This is the effective date of 07/01/2027.

Yep.

Okay. Great. I will go and take the vote for the house first. I vote aye. Rep Lee?

Aye. Rep Kapella? Rep. Excused. Okay.

May I take the vote for the Senate? Please. Thank you. Chair Alfonso? Aye.

Senator Kim? Aye. Senator Fevella? Excused. Right?