| HI | SB19 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB11 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create and annually update a wildfire hazard map. Requires private and public property owners to trim grasses within certain proximities of public rights of way and utility lines. Authorizes el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB244 | Intro
25% | Amends conservation and resources law to prohibit: (1) Commercial sales of parrotfish that have been caught by spearing; and (2) The spearing of parrotfish in state waters after sunset or before sunrise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB841 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a report to the Legislature and adopt admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB15 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to associations wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1083 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct maintenance dredging at state small boat harbors, boat launch ramp facilities, and waterways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1018 | Intro
25% | Requires a seller of real property adjacent to the shoreline, and the seller's agent, to disclose and include in all advertisements shoreline erosion certain issues related to the parcel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB364 | Intro
25% | Establishes a State Boating Facility Lease Program within the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to be administered by DOBOR. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural to lease Ala Wai Small Boat H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB427 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State from leasing any public lands, or extending the lease of any public lands, to any individual, corporation, or federal agency that is in arrears in the payment of certain moneys to the State, noncompliant with a consent decree or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB366 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that personal property stored in or near a public stream or tributary for a continuous period of more than twenty-four hours shall become abandoned property which the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall dispose of.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1084 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB223 | Intro
25% | Requires certain owners and occupants of properties located in hazardous fire areas to maintain effective firebreaks within thirty feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities. Establishes the Community Fuels Reduction Projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1296 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain reconstructions of all or a portion of a structure in the Lahaina National Historic Landmark District that was destroyed by wildfire on 8/8/2023, from the requirements of a special management area minor permit or a special management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1561 | Intro
25% | Establishes vegetation management requirements to prevent wildfires caused by electric utilities. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enforce the provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB839 | Intro
25% | Establishes a criminal penalty and monetary fines for aquarium fishing violations. Clarifies that each fish or aquatic life specimen taken in violation of certain fishing laws regarding aquarium fish and the possession and use of prohibited explosive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB457 | Intro
25% | Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB145 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Commission of Water Resource Management to retain independent legal counsel. Repeals the position of First Deputy to the Chairperson of the CWRM and establishes the position of Executive Director of the CWRM. Authorizes entities to cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB848 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Desalination Planning Task Force to examine the feasibility of, and develop a plan and timeline for, the use desalination as a source of potable water in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB590 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1017 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt by rule, any federal rule or regulation relating to the public lands of the State as it existed on 1/1/2025 that it deems are in the public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1099 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Land Use Commission to designate important agricultural lands and adopt maps for the designated lands in counties that fail to identify and recommend important agricultural lands by December 31, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB386 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to acquire all West Maui water systems by eminent domain and hold the water systems in trust for the County of Maui to manage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB534 | Intro
25% | Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to approve residential development on certain parcels of land in the Kakaako Makai area. Raises the building height limit on certain parcels in the area. Requires a certain percentage of the residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB755 | Intro
25% | Designates each county as the special management area authority within the county's respective jurisdiction. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1462 | Intro
25% | Reenacts the Historic Preservation Income Tax Credit, establishes a cap of the tax credit at $1,000,000, for taxable year 2025 to taxable year 2030, respectively, and repeals the tax credit on December 31, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1456 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of beach restoration to include activities undertaken to maintain and improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems through the management of sand and native vegetation, placement of sand, and activities undertaken to remove ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1598 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1458 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources the environmental stewardship fee program to collect a fee from visitors through an environmental stewardship license and allocate the revenue to protect, restore, and manage natural and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1463 | Intro
25% | Amend sections 6E-3 and 76-16(b), HRS, to allow the Department of Land and Natural Resources to employ both civil service and non-civil service professional and technical staff in its State Historic Preservation Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Committee convened by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Health to inventory lands owned by the United States government which may be reasonably transferred back to the State and to make recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1597 | Intro
25% | Increases the valuation threshold of development subject to a special management area minor permit or a special management area use permit from $500,000 to $750,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB150 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1164 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the DLNR shall, after 7/1/27, collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1301 | Intro
25% | Establishes conditions under which archaeological inventory surveys and reconnaissance surveys are required. Establishes conditions under which archaeological permits may be issued and revoked and the practice of archaeology may be temporarily revoke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1459 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1334 | Intro
25% | Authorizes county petition process for review and approval of land use district boundary amendments based on adopted county general plans or county development plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1266 | Intro
25% | Establishes an inter-division program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources consisting of certain agencies to address the location, movement, and restoration of Hawaiian burial sites or iwi, exposed or likely to be exposed by coastal er...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1535 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1182 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct an integrated land use study for the use of lands within the agricultural districts and submit interim and final reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1308 | Intro
25% | Removes outdated requirements for plans filed with the registrar's office; updates the statutory fee schedule to reflect those adopted in chapter 40 of title 3, HAR; grants additional discretion to the Department of Accounting and General Services to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1251 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1511 | 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 Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB750 | Intro
25% | Transfers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources certain state boating facilities on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1457 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1178 | Intro
25% | Codifies and makes permanent the Hawaii Carbon Smart Land Management Assistance Program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1318 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1193 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1174 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for one temporary full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) archaeologist position within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
