Bill Text: HI SB644 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Climate Change.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB644 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB644-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to climate change.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
The legislature finds that
it has established
the Hawaii Climate Change
Mitigation and Adaptation
Commission (Climate
Commission) Act 32, Session Laws of
Hawaiiin 2017, established the Hawaii
climate change mitigation and adaptation commission
in
order to address the urgent issue of sea-level rise in the State. In less than a year, the Climate Ccommission,
which comprises various state and county officials, has provided the
legislature with a comprehensive sea-level rise report in which risk levels are
clearly identified. From this report,
the legislature also finds it imperative to start implementing the commission's
recommendations.
The
legislature further finds that the State needs to start planning and funding
the coastal adaptations to sea-level rise right now, as
to avoid insurmountable crises in the decade ahead. The legislature identified believes
that the most important and urgent matter to be addressed to beis
the identification and determination of shoreline armoring and retreat.Given
the compellation of the Commission,
which includes members from BLNR, the Office
of Planning, DBEDT, HTA, BOA, OHA, DOT, DOH, BOE, CZM, and from
each of the counties' planning
departments
Accordingly,
the purpose of this Act is to require legislature
charges the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation Climate
Ccommission with the task to
determine which coastal areas to armor and which ones to select for managed
retreat.
SECTION 2.
(a) The Hawaii cClimate
Cchange
Mmitigation
and aAdaptation
Ccommission
is
hereby charged with making the determinations for each county regardingshall
determine areas of each county
to be designated for either armoring and which areas will be
designated foror managed retreat. The commission shall make its determinations for
three predicted levels of sea-level rise: three feet of sea-level rise SLR,
six feet of sea-level riseSLR, and nine
feet of sea-level riseSLR.
SECTION
3. (b) The
Hawaii
climate change mitigation and adaptation commission shall submit a
report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature by December 31, 2021.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 to complete the sea-level rise determination project[WS1] .
The sum[WS2] s appropriated shall be expended by the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission[WS3] for the purposes of this Act.[WS4]
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.[WS5]
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INTRODUCED
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Report Title:
Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission; Coastal Armoring; Managed Retreat; Report; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to determine areas in each county to designate for either armoring or managed retreat. Requires the commission to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys.
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