| HI | HB1476 | Intro
25% | Requires an environmental impact statement and consultation with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for actions that propose any launch of a spacecraft from or reeintry into state waters or the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| HI | HB123 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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| HI | HB1319 | Intro
25% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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| HI | HB658 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the scope of an action subject to environmental review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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| HI | HB999 | Intro
25% | Amends section 200-14, HRS, to clarify that enforcement of criminal water pollution offenses remains under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, rather than the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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| HI | HB314 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate development and associated infrastructure away from critically vulnerable areas to locations outside of sea level rise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB349 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a Slim-Hole Resource Characterization Program. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB1304 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB337 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Public Utilities Commission to establish standards requiring each electric utility company to remove from the rate base a commensurate amount of costs related to fossil fuel resources when adding new or conver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | HB340 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge for cost recovery of certain expenses of the Hawaii electricity reliabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| HI | HB1375 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Reenacts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1258 | Intro
25% | Requires owners or operators of waste combustion facilities to develop a plan to implement continuous monitoring and sampling technologies at each combustion unit to monitor and sample for certain air contaminants. Requires a publicly available websi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1230 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel. Specifies the restoration condition and quality acceptable by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1366 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan and updates to the plan every five years thereafter. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1403 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaii island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1456 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for individual and corporate taxpayers who install and place in service certain projects that support environmental sustainability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1264 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Extended Producer Responsibility Program. Requires certain producers of fast-moving consumer goods to register with the Department of Health and pay an annual fee based on the amount of packaging volume the covered producer places on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1265 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Recycled or Waste Inputs Tax Credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1228 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of waste or disposal facilities that are near or above a significant aquifer. Allows counties to apply for exemptions to state siting standards if they meet certain criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | HB1023 | Intro
25% | Modifies and improves the effectiveness of the renewable portfolio standards law, which stipulates the central role of Hawaii's electric utility companies in complying with the State's renewable energy and climate goals to address emerging trends.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB881 | Intro
25% | Establishes and implements the Catastrophic Wildfire Securitization Act, to allow public utilities to securitize rates in order to raise capital that can be used to pay for costs and expenses arising out of catastrophic wildfires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB965 | Intro
25% | Establishes a microplastic filtration rebate program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB906 | Intro
25% | Allows manufacturers to coordinate activities directly related to the recycling of covered electronic devices. Expands the scope of covered electronic devices to include electronic device peripherals and certain legacy devices. Requires manufacturers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB946 | Intro
25% | Establishes a carbon displacement tax credit for taxpayers of locally produced goods. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to certify tax credit amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB950 | Intro
25% | Requires all newly constructed state buildings and facilities to use only bi-level lighting systems beginning 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB1021 | Intro
25% | Provides needed clarifications on the applicability and scope of section 225P-5, HRS. Clarifies current emissions reduction goals and defines critical terms used in climate mitigation. Establishes a total or gross emissions target as well as sector-s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | HB260 | Intro
25% | Eliminates state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles. Requires savings be passed from distributor to consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB352 | Intro
25% | Authorizes certain state government entities to establish a self-certification process for behind-the-meter, customer-sited solar distributed energy resource systems and exempt the systems from the Federal Emergency Management Agency No-Rise/No-Impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB30 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in any urban land use district. Applies the existing time-of-use restrictions on leaf blowers to non-gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the fines for offenses of leaf blower restrictions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB788 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries and requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB4 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB789 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission's Public Benefits Fee Administrator to provide information and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB514 | Intro
25% | Creates an offshore wind energy working group to generate a roadmap to define standards to consider in the developmental process for offshore wind energy. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2027 regular sess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB513 | Intro
25% | Expands the existing renewable energy technologies tax credit to cover claims made after 2025 for solar energy systems integrating battery storage or existing systems that are retrofitted to include battery storage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB644 | Intro
25% | After 1/1/2026, prohibits businesses where food or beverages are packaged and sold on the business' premises for individual consumption from using, selling, or distributing certain disposable or single-use food ware and beverage service items, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB5 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB105 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for the purchase of electric garbage trucks by qualified taxpayers. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB597 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including present and future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB785 | Intro
25% | Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Authorizes the public utilities commission to adjust the 2045 and interim standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB558 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Nuclear Energy Task Force within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB507 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB7 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB6 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB109 | Intro
25% | Increases the deposit and refund value for beverage containers from 5 cents to 10 cents under the deposit beverage container program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB8 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB318 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation banks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB651 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation banks and amends the Endangered Species Recovery Committee's membership and scope of authority. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB404 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to adopt or amend rules to establish a classification system for composting facilities or operations. Allows composting and co-composting in the agricultural district, including on lands with class A or class B soils...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB748 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health. Reduces the required buffer zone around waste or disposal faciliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB351 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii renewable hydrogen program and hydrogen investment capital special fund to include a broader focus on long duration clean energy storage. Transfers responsibility for the program to the Hawaii State Energy Office. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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