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Hawaii lawmakers passed and killed dozens of bills Friday as they raced against a 6 p.m. deadline to send measures out of conference committees and on to the full House and Senate for final votes next Tuesday and Thursday.

The morning started off at a slow simmerÌý²¹²Ô»å reached a boil by the evening. Senators and representatives zipped between conference rooms, working all five floors of the Capitol as they met to discuss bills and hash out last-minute agreements — or not.

Here’s a far-from-all-inclusive highlight reel of what survived and what died.

See You Next Week

Here are some of the bills that emerged from conference committees and face floor votes next week:

• Autism Coverage:ÌýÌý·É´Ç³Ü±ô»å mandate that insurance companies cover up to $25,000 a year in treatment until a child turns 14.
• Rail Tax Extension: would extend Honolulu’s 0.5 percent General Excise Tax surcharge for rail another five years beyond its Dec. 31, 2022, sunset date.
• Alii Place: would let the state negotiate the purchase of Alii Place, a prime downtown Honolulu office building that a San Francisco company has offered to sell for $90 million.
• Turtle Bay: would protect 635.3 acres of undeveloped land on the North Shore of Oahu. The deal has been fragile ever since former Gov. Neil Abercrombie brokered it but it looks close to becoming finalized.
• Cesspool Upgrades:ÌýÌý·É´Ç³Ü±ô»å give property owners a $10,000 tax credit to upgrade cesspools to approved sewer systems, such as a septic or aerobic system, in an attempt to phase out some of Hawaii’s 90,000 cesspools.
• Free Dual Credit Programs for High-Schoolers:ÌýÌý·É´Ç³Ü±ô»å waive college tuition for high school students in dual credit programs at the University of Hawaii’s community colleges like Ìý²¹²Ô»å .
• Health Connector Assistance: would provide $2 million next year for the health insurance marketplace.
• IDs for Homeless:ÌýÌý·É´Ç³Ü±ô»å allow homeless people to apply for state identification cards even without the required state and federal documents if a social service organization, attorney, member of the clergy, correctional institution staff or health professional presents a signed statement certifying their personal information. It would waive all fees for homeless individuals.
• Food/Excise Tax Credit:Ìý would increase the food/excise tax credit, which hasn’t been changed since it was established in 2007.
• Preschool Open Doors:Ìý would restore $6 million necessary to run the  next year, which was inadvertently left out of the Gov. David Ige’s proposed budget.
• Water Scalping Study: would require the Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the use of water scalping technology – the process of extracting usable water from a sewerage network – in state facilities.
• Community-Based Renewable Energy Projects: would establish a community-based renewable energy program, which allow electric utility customers to participate in renewable energy projects that produce electricity, which they can sell back to electric utility companies.
• Changes to the Barrel Tax: would fund the Environmental Response Revolving Fund with the general fund instead of the barrel tax to ensure that there’s a consistent stream of funding that supplies investments in clean energy, local agricultural production and environmental emergency responses.
• UIPA Exemption: would have originally created a new exemption in the Uniform Information Practices Act if the release of the information caused harm, inconvenience or unfairness to an individual, but it was cut down to only exempt information that would create a substantial risk of physical harm to someone.
• Kupuna Care:Ìý would provide an additional $3 million to fund the Kupuna Care program in fiscal year 2016, which is in addition to the base budget of $4.8 million. This amount of funding is less than previous years, and much less than $11 million that the bill originally asked for.

Not Happening This Year

• Payday Loans: would have capped the annual percentage rate for payday loans at 36 percent, much lower than the current 459 percent.
• Care Homes: House Bill 600 would have let a pay out of their own pocket to live in a community care foster family home.
• In Vitro Fertilization: would have required insurance companies to cover fertility treatments to include same-sex couples and single women.
• Health Connector Reforms: would have let the Connector offer large group coverage to insurers and made other reforms.
• Banning Microbeads: would have gradually banned the manufacture and sale of personal care products containing synthetic plastic microbeads to protect marine life.
• Kahoolawe Restoration Fund: would have given money to the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission for restoration and preservation projects, but the bill was deferred because of its $2 million budget over the next two years. 
• School Bullying: would have required state and county agencies that serve youth to establish bullying prevention policies, and would have started a task force to help the governor develop bullying prevention policies. However, the bill was deferred because it didn’t get clearance from the House and Senate money committees.
• School Health Program: would have required the Department of Education and Department of Health start a working group to discuss and create a comprehensive school-based health program, but the bill was deferred because it didn’t get clearance from the money committees.
• Safe Places for Youth: would have established the Safe Places Youth Pilot Program, which would have created a network of safe places where youth could receive services like counseling, alcohol and substance abuse support, and teen pregnancy prevention without parental consent.
• Increasing Public Housing: would have given general obligation bonds to several state agencies to help improve and increase existing public and affordable housing.
• ´¡´Ú´Ú´Ç°ù»å²¹²ú±ô±ðÌý±á´Ç³Ü²õ¾±²Ô²µ: would have allowed the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, upon request by a county, to establish and operate for the county an affordable housing subaccount within the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. This could have given counties funding to help build more affordable housing.