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Senate committees advance large package of bills, most passed with technical amendments or unamended
Summary
The joint Senate committees took action on a long list of bills across subjects; most measures were adopted with the chair’s recommendation, frequently incorporating Legislative Reference Bureau technical amendments or deferrals to later dates.
The joint Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs and the Senate Committee on Ways and Means advanced a large package of bills across subjects including agriculture, education, renewable energy, procurement, and administrative housekeeping. Most measures were adopted with the chair’s recommendation, often incorporating Legislative Reference Bureau technical amendments or setting defective/adjusted effective dates.
Several items were handled with little or no recorded discussion and moved by voice vote. Examples recorded in the hearing transcript include:
- SB65: Passed with amendments; effective date defected to 02/01/1950 per chair recommendation.
- SB125: Passed with amendments; adopted LRB technical amendments and clarified “value-added agricultural product” for purposes of the bill consistent with HRS 148-63 and Department of Agriculture criteria.
- SB227: Passed with amendments; LRB technical amendments adopted.
- SB328: Passed with amendments; effective date defected to 2050.
- SB329: Passed unamended.
- SB383: Passed with amendments, LRB technical amendments adopted; effective upon approval.
- SB448: Passed unamended.
- SB465: Passed with amendments; defective date clarified and measure adopted.
- SB558: Passed with amendments to define terms such as “open access” and “world-class products.”
- SB576: Passed with amendments; effective date defected to 02/01/1950.
- SB744: Passed unamended (record includes a reservation by Senator Inouye noted in the transcript).
- SB789: Passed with amendments including a conditional repeal tied to Department of Education meeting statutory goals; repeal date set to 01/01/2031 if goals are unmet.
- SB997: Passed with amendments narrowing the scope of a preferential rate to firm renewables.
- SB1023, SB1065, SB1220, SB1232, SB1234, SB1252, SB1269, SB1360, SB1361, SB1381, SB1388, SB1487, SB1491, SB1530, SB1536, SB1543, SB1547 and many others were advanced during the session, often with LRB technical amendments or as passed/unamended. Several items were deferred to a continued hearing (for example, some measures were set for February 19 or February 26).
Where recorded, chairs announced adoption of amendments or recommitments (for example, several bills were recommitted to Ways and Means with SD1 adoption). The transcript typically records the chair’s voice vote and a procedural roll call line stating “All members present, anyone voting no with reservation? Motion adopted,” without listing individual vote tallies for each item in the excerpt.
Because so many measures were handled with brief recorded remarks, this summary lists the measures and the committee disposition as recorded; the transcript does not include appropriation amounts or detailed amendment text for most items in the bundle. Readers seeking the final bill language and fiscal impact should consult the legislative tracking system and committee reports for each bill.
