A selective digest of bills and briefings of interest Monday at the state Capitol. Click on the links for times, locations and details.

• House Bill 252 Amends definition of “qualified Native Hawaiian.”

• Senate Bill 1166 Increases conveyance tax on big real estate deals.

• Senate Bill 1087 Low-cost green infrastructure loans.

• Senate Bill 655 Allows testing of hetero partners for STDs.

• Senate Bill 1235 Develops a Hawaiian television channel.

• Senate Bill 1135 Expands electronic waste recycling.

• Senate Bill 642 Restricts counter sales of cigarettes and tobacco.

• Senate Bill 164 Art work of Dan Inouye and Patsy Mink.

• Bunch of collective bargaining appropriations.

• Bunch of University of Hawaii stuff.

• Bunch of health stuff.

• Decision making on repealing the PLDC, budgets for OHA and the Judiciary, credit card surcharges, sales of honey, thrill craft for ocean cleanup, utility coop waiver and PUC incentives policy. 

Photo courtesy Inf-Lite Teacher.

—Chad Blair