Tuesday is the 26th day of the 60-day session.

Among the many bills related to pedestrian safety this session, the Senate is touting one that would give the state Department of Transportation money in July to make crosswalks safer for pedestrians.

The original form of Senate Bill 1191 would have created a pilot study to identify intersections that do not give some elderly pedestrians enough time to get across the street, but the amended version headed for a floor vote on Tuesday now would provide money for actual projects identified as priorities by the AARP.

Projects could include recalibrating walk signals to increase crossing times, adding countdown timers at selected intersections and a public awareness campaign.

The bill is one of hundreds that will be heard by the House and Senate on Tuesday as they vote on which bills they will send to the other chamber in Thursday's crossover.

The importance of this is that bills failing to make the "crossover" are likely dead for the session.

With crossover coming up, committees had a busy week picking which bills to send to the floor. All bills had to be passed out of committee by Friday's decking deadline to make the cut.

Some bills, such as one that would have granted same-sex couples the same rights as married ones, suffered death by deferral.

Others ended up like the bill that would have set a cap on non-monetary damages in medical malpractice suits, which was killed outright when it was held by the House Judiciary Committee.

Then there are those like the House bill that would have required an environmental impact statement on the Hawaii Superferry, which are done for the session simply because they did not get a hearing.

Some of the bills likely to cross over have changed drastically from their original form. The House's standards-of-conduct bill, which had wide bipartisan support early in the session, was stripped down significantly as it worked its way through the committees.

The so-called "ethics" bill would have: Imposed a ban on gifts and junkets from lobbyists during the legislative session; ended the practice of lobbyists and other paid professionals serving as legislative "interns"; prevented spouses from working as lobbyists; and doubled the blackout period before a former lawmaker can become a lobbyist.

All that's left in House Bill 1909 is creation of an ethics committee in each chamber to set rules and handle issues referred to them by the House speaker and Senate president. It is not clear from the bill how the committees would be appointed, nor what kind of ratio there would be between Democrats and Republicans.

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