A selective digest of bills and briefings of interest Monday at the state Capitol. Click on the links for times, locations and details.
• Senate Bill 319 Thrill craft use for ocean cleanup.
• Senate Bill 470 Regarding retailers and credit card surcharges.
• Senate Bill 655 Treatment of heterosexual partners with STDs.
• Senate Bill 642 Requirements for tobacco sales and med pot use.
• Several measures regarding the PUC and electric coops.
• Decision making on Hawaiian canoes, long-term care awareness, developing school lands, care facility info online, state EITC, Safe Places for Youth program, EUTF trust fund, lieutenant gov allowance, mobile electronics while operating vehicles, film tax credits, homeowners and public housing, absentee voting registration, identifying top campaign contributors in ads, funding nisei centers, human trafficking hotline, HHSC privatization task force, legislative videoconferencing and public housing criminal trespass.

Photo courtesy BrightonPiers.
—Chad Blair
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