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Judiciary committee advances long list of bills in decision‑making session
Summary
After extended discussion of two bills, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance a series of bills (most with the chair's recommendations to pass or pass with amendments), deferred a few measures, and closed the day's business.
Following detailed hearings on SB 284 and SB 295, the Senate Committee on Judiciary conducted a decision‑making block and advanced a series of bills with the chair’s recommendations. Most measures were adopted without recorded objections from members present; a handful were deferred for further work.
Among the committee actions recorded in the session: SB 1310 (conforming contractor language to FBI fingerprint/background requirements) was passed with amendments to replace the term "agent of the contractor" with narrowly tailored employee/contractor language; SB 330 (invasive species quarantine enforcement) passed unamended; SB 822 (landlord petition authority and working group for landlord‑tenant code review) passed with amendments to make it a working‑group proposal; SB 1276 (Hawaii grown coffee labeling) passed unamended with fines for false labeling; SB 405 (neighborhood boards and third‑party reports) passed unamended; SB 639 (underground storage tank restoration standards) passed unamended; SB 1651 (board packet posting) passed unamended; SB 1425 (harm reduction & syringe exchange program amendments) passed with amendments to change exchange rules to needs‑based distribution and shorten a liability protection period from six months to two; and many other bills on the agenda were passed or deferred per the chair’s recommendations.
The committee also deferred some items to later dates (for example, one bill setting vehicle‑impairment penalties and a measure on foreign influence and election communications were deferred to later hearings). The hearing concluded after the committee completed the 10:00 and 10:01 agendas.
The committee’s report will record the adopted amendments and any deferred dates.
