| HI | HB1586 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of a wastewater treatment works project in Waialua, Oahu. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1702 | Intro
25% | Reduces zoning restrictions for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2178 | 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. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1995 | Intro
25% | Mandates that fifty per cent of all heavy-duty motor vehicles in the State's fleet be hydrogen vehicles by an unspecified date. Mandates that one hundred per cent of all heavy-duty motor vehicles in the State's fleet be hydrogen vehicles by December ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1528 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment that guarantees individuals the right to a clean and healthy environment; the control of pollution; and the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural, native, cultural, scenic, and healthful qualitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1895 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the installation of septic systems for any development or structure constructed on a subdivision of land in the agricultural district on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1741 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision of the state constitution that prohibits the construction of nuclear fission power plants unless approved by a two-thirds vote in each house of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1796 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1693 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to establish and administer an electronic smoking device disposal program for the collection and disposal of electronic smoking devices that contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Requires all retail tobacco sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1685 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide 50 per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the U.S. Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2099 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2097 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "power-generating facility" for the purposes of environmental impact assessments to include new combustion electricity-generating facilities operating beginning January 1, 2024, that were not previously operational. Includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1994 | Intro
25% | Includes hydrogen vehicles as a priority for state agencies when purchasing or leasing light-, medium-, and heavy-duty motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1973 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of ten or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, under certain circumstances. Au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1891 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop strategies for vehicle miles traveled reduction in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2031 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for the continued exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB859 | Intro
25% | Extends the renewable energy standards timeline and reduces the percentage goal to allow for firm energy production as a part of a resilient statewide system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB506 | Engross
50% | Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1317 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB937 | Intro
25% | Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to incorporate zeroemission vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or both, into the lessor's rental motor vehicle fleets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1498 | Intro
25% | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB345 | Intro
25% | Specifies that no law, rule, ordinance, or code, including the state building code shall prohibit or limit the deemed acceptable use of a refrigerant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1289 | Intro
25% | Removes historic sites and the Waikiki special district from the requirement for environmental assessments under section 343-5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB2 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1247 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB5 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB4 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB43 | Intro
25% | Requires the Auditor to conduct a financial audit of the deposit beverage container program and the Department of Health's expenditures from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1480 | Intro
25% | Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB958 | Intro
25% | Requires recycling of construction and demolition materials and use of recycled materials to factor into priority offeror selections for competitive procurements of construction or demolition services by the State or any county. Requires the State Bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB927 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Hawaii State Energy Office the future fusion task force to promote the use of fusion as an energy source in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB182 | Intro
25% | Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories as practicable and inform the public of health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to consi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB256 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a certain amount of organic waste per year. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB835 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, prohibits the installation of gas appliances in new construction within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1431 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii State Energy Office to update the Energy State Functional Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB72 | Engross
50% | For applications filed on or after July 1, 2023, requires the Public Utilities Commission to render decisions on certain renewable projects, power purchase agreements, and cost recovery applications within one hundred eighty days of the filing of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1463 | Intro
25% | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1377 | Intro
25% | By 7/15/2024, requires the counties to adopt ordinances to establish an expedited streamlined permitting process for essential businesses to obtain the building permits needed for the installation of rooftop solar and energy storage systems. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB690 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB839 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or an eligible developer to prepare an environmental impact statement for any proposed housing project on lands zoned as preservation or conservation by the applicable county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB3 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1147 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1445 | Intro
25% | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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