• Senate Ways and Means will meet at 9 a.m. in Conference Room 211. The agenda includes a major bill — Senate Bill 2012, aka “The Invest in Hawaii Act of 2012” — so named because it involves a $500 million bond issuance for capitol improvement projects across the state. Nearly every senator has signed onto SB 2012, and this is its only Senate hearing.

• Two House committees will meet at 9 a.m. in Conference Room 325. The agenda includes a bill setting up a regulatory structure for an undersea power cable.

• Senate Judiciary will meet at 9:30 a.m. in Conference Room 016. The agenda includes several measures related to animal cruelty — including one that creates an offense for the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps.

• Three Senate committees will meet at 2:45 p.m. in Conference Room 224. The sole agenda item is a bill requiring Public Safety — it runs the prisons — to plan for a model wellness center that employs native Hawaiian cultural practices.

• House lawmakers will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. in the Rotunda (makai side by the Queen Liliuokalani Statue) on House Bill 2345. The bill would provide Saint Francis Healthcare System with $80 million in special purpose revenue bonds to re-open the now closed Hawaii Medical Center in Ewa Beach. 

HB 2345 was set for a hearing before House Health at 9:30 a.m. in Conference Room 329.

• Two House committees will hold an informational briefing on the state’s Employer Union Trust Fund at 3 p.m. in Conference Room 309. Kalbert Young and Luis Salaveria from Budget and Finance will be on hand.