| HI | HB512 | Intro
25% | Establishes a standard of state waters within three thousand feet seaward of the base line of the territorial sea as ocean recreation management areas. Prohibits commercial activity in ocean recreation management areas, except by a commercial use per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB528 | Intro
25% | Exempts state and county lands leased after July 1, 2025, for an initial period of no less than ninety-nine years from state law governing residential leaseholds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB738 | Intro
25% | Creates a process for expediting the review of majority residential mixed-use transit-oriented development, or residential transit-oriented development, on certain parcels within county-designated transit-oriented development zones that have a low ri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB1503 | Intro
25% | Excludes from the definition of "development" for purposes of coastal zone management restrictions, the reconstruction, under certain circumstances, of structures destroyed in the August 8, 2023, wildfires in Lahaina, Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB1318 | Intro
25% | Removes from the definition of "public lands" lands set aside by the Governor to the counties for the purpose of affordable housing. Specifies that lands set aside by the Governor to the counties for affordable housing require legislative approval fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB1484 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Transit-Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB1008 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the effect of any proposed State affordable housing project within ninety days of a request for determination. Sets forth the historic review requirements based on the project area's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB1495 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Keauhou Aquifer System Monitoring Pilot Project within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the installation of two monitoring wells in the Keauhou Aquifer System. Requires re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB189 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances setting forth procedures and requirements for the review and permitting of agricultural tourism uses and activities as secondary uses, in addition to accessory uses, on a working farm or farming operation. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB966 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide, uniform standards to promote agricultural tourism activities in the State by establishing state agricultural tourism activity requirements that are applicable to all counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB1410 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Restructures the conveyance tax to a marginal rate system and adjusts the tax for multifamily properties to reflect value on a per-unit basis. Allocates revenues from conveyance tax collections to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB144 | Intro
25% | Authorizes 2 or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to meet during its transition period regarding any matter relating to the Authority's business; provided that no commitment to vote is made or sought and no decision-ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB737 | Intro
25% | Redefines "historic property" with respect to the State Historic Preservation Program. Deletes the requirement for an application for a proposed project on an existing privately-owned single-family detached dwelling unit to have a historic preservati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB830 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the Department is unable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB347 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Land and Natural Resources from establishing or implementing bag limits for goats in public hunting areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | HB735 | Intro
25% | Allows an individual wastewater system to serve up to five bedrooms, regardless of the number of dwelling units or accessory units, whether attached or detached, with certain exclusions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
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| HI | HB1165 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to sell or dispose of property bordering the ocean when the Department of Transportation requests the acquisition of the property for state highway purposes. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB73 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Land and Natural Resources from disposing of or approving the use or setting aside of public lands for the establishment of any immigration detention facility. Prohibits state and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB742 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Community Development Authority to prepare environmental impact statements for the Iwilei/Kapalama and University of Hawaii West Oahu transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement districts on the island of Oahu. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB912 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to offset the debt for the Waiahole Water System. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB376 | Intro
25% | Accelerates the deadlines for the required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 and priority level 2 cesspools to 2035 and 2040, respectively. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB800 | Intro
25% | Provides for the transfer of certain parcels in the Liliha Civic Center area and Iwilei Fire Station area from various state agencies to the City and County of Honolulu. Provides for the transfer of the parcel of land on which Alii Place is sited fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB969 | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB653 | Intro
25% | Closes or reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, pursuant to certain recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 2408.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB798 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the exemptions to the prohibition on discharging any wastewater or raw sewage into state waters after December 31, 2026, including an exemption for treatment plants having a treatment capacity of less than a certain number of gallons per da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB734 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, in consultation with various agencies and professionals, to review rules and practices and propose changes that have the potential to make wastewater systems and cesspool upgrades more affordable without compromisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB1409 | Intro
25% | Amends the funding priorities of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to incentivize development in areas that satisfy transit-supportive density requirements. Allocates a minimum percentage of Rental Housing Revolving Fund moneys for certain mixed-inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB1317 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes an advisory council within the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program to advise on environmental and cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | HB1138 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue interim rules regarding commercial and recreational use of water sports equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1451 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force within the Hawaii Community Development Authority to update the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan maps, tier tables, and inventories of state lands suitable and available f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1140 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the removal of homeless encampments on state lands under the Department's control. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB379 | Intro
25% | Requires newly installed or modified individual wastewater systems that are near the shoreline, or likely to pollute groundwater, to include denitrification capacity. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1323 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer certain public lands for agricultural use to the Department of Agriculture without approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Agriculture. Requires the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1132 | Intro
25% | Makes critical infrastructure information received or maintained by the Office of Homeland Security confidential, except in certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB879 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum grant amount for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1074 | Intro
25% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies prior to the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB929 | Intro
25% | Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the net capital gain from the transfer or conveyance of agricultural land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB660 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Land Court. Requires registered owners of an interest in property registered in land court to deregister their interest. Requires the land court to inform registered owners of the requirement to deregister. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB12 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that persons who enter private property for recreational purposes have no cause of action, unless exempted under law. Requires courts to award attorneys' fees and costs to landowners if plaintiffs bring unreasonable actions. Establishes, as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB305 | Intro
25% | Creates the Aloha Aina Land Trust to rehabilitate and manage lands transferred by the United States military to the State after the leases for those lands expires. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1359 | Intro
25% | Establishes a grant program for drainage system maintenance and flood mitigation measures in residential areas, to be administered by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HCR6 | Intro
25% | Authorizing The Issuance Of A Twenty-five-year Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Ewa Beach, Ewa, Oahu, For A Seawall, And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of The Improvements Constructed Thereon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1347 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a permitting system for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the taking of aquatic life. Repeals prohibition on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the taking of aquatic life. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1501 | Intro
25% | Establishes base selection criteria for exceptional trees. Establishes the significant tree designation, selection criteria, and related processes. Establishes the State Arborist Advisory Committee within the Department of Land and Natural Resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1423 | Intro
25% | Prohibits vessels longer than 75 feet from entering Hanalei Bay. Exempts vessels operated by a federal, state, or county agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1327 | Intro
25% | Provides that any Hawaii-born or Native Hawaiian individual shall qualify for resident fees at state parks, regardless of where the individual currently resides; provided that the individual first presents to the Department of Land and Natural Resour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1269 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Accessible Wilderness and State Parks Trails Program within the Division of State Parks of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Establishes the Accessible Wilderness and State Parks Trails Program Special Fund. Requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1360 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a comprehensive review of the existing land registration systems and transition to a single, unified registry system; oversee the digitization of all land records into an online database...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1276 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year stream maintenance pilot program to be implemented by the City and County of Honolulu Department of Facility Maintenance. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1309 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the transfer of certain lands under the jurisdiction of certain state agencies to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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