• Two Senate committees will hear several bills intended to reduce the prison population through changes to parole and probation. House Public Safety will hear similar measures, as will House Judiciary. House Hawaiian Affairs will hear the bill that calls for a puuhonua plan at the Big Isle’s former Kulani prison site.

• House Housing will meet to consider several measures relating to the homeless, including a bill that requires counties to provide information on and access to temporary emergency shelters after they are evicted from public property.

• Two House committees will meet to discuss watershed and marine conservation bills, as well as a bill that used to be about poker but is now about giving state and county government the authority to skip environmental review of construction projects.

• Two Senate committees will hear a bill that requires old crematoriums operating without air pollution control permits to submit permit applications to the Department of Health.

• House Hawaiian Affairs will meet to consider a measure that deletes the “one-gallon per person per day” exception to the prohibition against the removal of sand and other beach or marine deposits, except in some circumstances.

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