Proposals to tack a surcharge onto traffic fines and suspend the driver's licenses of convicted drug users are likely to languish in legislative committees this session, now that a key deadline has passed.

A prohibition on mixed martial arts fighting is also essentially dead for the year, as is a bill that would allow police to issue licenses so residents can carry concealed weapons.

However, most of the priorities identified by the administration and majority leaders in both chambers are still on the table one-third of the way through the legislative session.

And bills that only have to make it through one committee could still be pushed through during the next couple of weeks.

"It will be picking up next week," said House Speaker Calvin Say. "Next week, most of the final committees will have to post their public hearing notice of what bills they want to hear."

Say added that even some of the measures that appear to be defeated for the year still could be resurrected.

Gov. Linda Lingle said on Thursday that she was optimistic most of her package would make it through the first cut. "As of now, I think it's going well, certainly the best of the four years I've been here," she said.

Mixed martial arts promoter Patrick Freitas of Icon Sport said he is glad the prohibition on extreme fighting didn't make it out of committee, as that validates the sport.

"From a public relations standpoint, it's a win," he said.

He hopes that another bill that takes aim at the industry will meet a similar fate. That bill, which moved through the House yesterday, would add regulations promoters worry could cripple the industry.

"Conceptually, I'm in favor of more regulation," Freitas said. "We go above and beyond what is required."

The bill, however, misses the mark, he said.

While cheered that some of his bills to help his community and the University of Hawai'i cleared their committees, Rep. Tommy Waters said he was disappointed that others appear to be dead for the session.

Waters, D-51st (Waimanalo, Lanikai), who introduced the mixed martial arts bills and the traffic fine surcharge, said he will look for opportunities to resurrect the measures this year, particularly those aimed at getting more money to county law enforcement.

Otherwise, he plans to introduce the bills again next session.

"Sometimes these things take more than a year to gain steam," he said.

Reach Treena Shapiro at tshapiro@honoluluadvertiser.com.