| HI | SB794 | 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] | 2025-01-27
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 | SB1168 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates moneys for the development of a structural integrity assessment program within the Department of Accounting and General Services to inspect certain multi-story structures. Requires the Department of Accounting and General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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 | 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 | 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 |
| HI | SB1275 | Intro
25% | Establishes the State-Owned Historic Properties Preservation Plan Working Group within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to ensure the preservation of state-owned historic properties and inherited lands. Requires reports to the Legislature...
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB1550 | 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 Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB1238 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for a structural engineering analysis; the planning, design, and construction of repairs and improvements to the water line system; and the reopening of a roadway related to Manele Small Boat Harbor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB1537 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the feeding of feral non-native animals on state land within one-half mile of the ocean or a stream. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enforce certain penalties for violations. Requires the counties to adopt or amend ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Agriculture and Environment 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 | HB1332 | Intro
25% | Establishes Hawaii Beach Day. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, to organize and support events and activities to celebrate and observe Hawaii Beach Day. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Culture & Arts 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 | HB1356 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for a flood mitigation study of Hoaka Road in Hilo, Hawaii, contingent upon a dollar-for-dollar match by the County of Hawaii.
[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 | SB673 | Intro
25% | Effective 7/1/2027, establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the Department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB656 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to install one hundred monitoring wells to collect data and map the migration of the Red Hill contamination plume.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB756 | Intro
25% | Establishes the DLNRTip application as the official electronic platform for persons to report natural resource violations to the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement. Creates statutory requirements regarding the design and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB751 | Intro
25% | Establishes a procedure for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease fast lands and submerged lands that were destroyed by an event triggering a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB840 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract or form a partnership with private parties to assist with the maintenance and management of sunscreen dispensers at all state beaches, as well as publicize that the mineral-based sunscre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1016 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission to study the feasibility of implementing a "buy clean" decarbonization policy and program in Hawaii. Requires administrative and substantive support from the Department of Land and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1072 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the efforts of the Division of Aquatic Resources in the removal of the majano anemone from Kaneohe Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB913 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB965 | Intro
25% | Establishes a microplastic filtration rebate program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1142 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1139 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB68 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a study of the carrying capacity of Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor in the County of Kauai. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB415 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB195 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to identify and preserve historically significant areas within state harbors and place educational displays at the areas for public awareness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB210 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB535 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB519 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definition of "aquarium purposes", in Hawaii Administrative Rules, to allow a bona fide aquaculture entity or scientific research entity to collect aquatic life without a permit so lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB510 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules lifting the moratorium on fishing in the Lapakahi Marine Life Conservation District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB518 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to update the online Wiki Permits service to include locations for which a right-of-entry permit for commercial activity is available via the service. Requires public input prior to the removal of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB318 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation banks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB317 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB508 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB503 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to incorporate into their assessment process the possession of dam insurance or the active seeking of dam insurance by private dam owners, as part of their valid mitigation strategies, in conjunct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB543 | Intro
25% | Part I: Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator and other positions within the Commission on Water Resource Management for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Requires reports to the Legislature, Gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB266 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that surfers have the right of way in designated surf locations to be determined by the department of land and natural resources. Authorizes penalties for fishermen who violate this section. Requires DLNR to implement a public education cam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB568 | Intro
25% | Designates the Department of Land and Natural Resources as the primary agency for the trapping of feral goats, sheep, and pigs. Requires the Department to establish a program to humanely manage populations of feral goats, sheep, and pigs in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB363 | Intro
25% | Establishes cat owner liability for harm to property or native birds. Prohibits the care of predators on state lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Establishes administrative fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB482 | Intro
25% | Clarifies petty misdemeanor penalties for the offense of criminal trespass onto public parks and recreational grounds. Provides for seizure of abandoned or unattended personal property. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a homeles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB517 | Intro
25% | Prohibits parking of motor vehicles on the grounds of Iolani Palace. Requires DAGS to remove the blacktop, parking area, and paid parking adjacent to Iolani Palace. Requires DLNR to develop and maintain a pedestrian area adjacent to Iolani Palace. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB197 | Intro
25% | Establishes enhanced public notice requirements for changes in land use by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Department of Land and Natural Resources, or University of Hawaii and boundary changes by the Land Use Commission. Requires approval of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
