Bill Text: HI SB1291 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Sea Level Rise Adaptation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-25 - Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). [SB1291 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB1291-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
To
successfully adapt to climate change and sea level rise, state agencies having operational responsibilities over facilities owned and
managed by the State must plan, coordinate, and act to assure Hawaii's
sustainable and resilient future and mitigate against societal or economic
disruptions caused by climate impacts.
The legislature recognizes that the practice of statewide sea level rise
adaptation will require comprehensive and long-term planning and that
collectively, state agencies having operational responsibilities over state
facilities must work collaboratively over time through a centralized
coordinating agency to identify existing and planned facilities that are
vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding impacts, and natural hazards.
In
accordance with Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, the office of planning and sustainable development conducted an inventory of state
facilities vulnerable to sea level rise and identified that over two hundred
seventy-five facilities owned and managed by the State are located within the
sea level rise exposure area in the 3.2 feet sea level rise scenario, as
projected by the 2017 Hawaii Sea Level
Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report, which was prepared as required by Act 83, Session Laws of Hawaii
2014, as amended by Act 32, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017. These vulnerable facilities represent
structures under the management of twenty different state agencies. The 2021 report recommended that
site-specific vulnerability assessments be conducted on the facilities
identified in the exposure assessment in order to fully understand the
vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive capacity and facilitate agencies'
abilities to prioritize needs for current and future sea level rise adaptation
into capital improvement requests.
The
purpose of this Act is to require the office of planning and sustainable
development to develop a standardized process for assessing the vulnerability
of state facilities to sea level rise.
SECTION 2. The office of
planning and sustainable development, in consultation with state agencies
having operational responsibilities over facilities owned and managed by the
State, shall develop a standardized process for assessing the vulnerability of
facilities owned and managed by the State to sea level rise in order to ensure
that sea level rise planning and adaptation implementation is carried out in a
consistent and comprehensive manner across state agencies' capital planning projects.
The development of a
standardized vulnerability assessment process shall include:
(1) A standardized procedure and template for assessing and reporting facility vulnerability to sea level rise; and
(2) Guidance for agencies
having operational responsibilities over facilities owned and managed by the
State on how to conduct the vulnerability assessment.
SECTION 3. There is
appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of
$ or so much
thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2023-2024 to fund the development
of a standardized vulnerability assessment process for facilities owned and
managed by the State.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of planning
and sustainable development for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on June 30, 3000.
Report Title:
Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, Sea Level Rise Adaptation; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in cooperation with each state agency having operational responsibilities over state facilities to develop a standardized process to conduct vulnerability assessments for facilities at risk from sea level rise and guidance to agencies on how to conduct the vulnerability assessments for their facilities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
