Hawaii Senate Bill 1033 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-01-31 - Re-Referred to AEN/WTL, JDC/WAM.
Pending: Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain natural resource rules by formal action at a publicly noticed meeting if the board finds that such adoption, amendment, or repeal is necessary to implement effective and adaptive management measures in response to new or previously benign aquatic nuisance species, in light of newly available technology, or in light of newly available data. Creates new fines for violations of rules pertaining to the department's prevention of or response to previously benign aquatic nuisance species. Authorizes the department to prevent or respond to threats from aquatic nuisance species from all discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, not just ballast water and hull fouling.

Relating To Aquatic Resources.

Sen. Lorraine Inouye [D]

Sen. Angus McKelvey [D]

Sen. Maile Shimabukuro [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-31	Senate	Re-Referred to AEN/WTL, JDC/WAM.
2023-01-27	Senate	Referred to AEN/WTL, JDC.
2023-01-23	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2023-01-20	Senate	Introduced.

SB1033 (Carry Over) 2023-01-31 - Re-Referred to AEN/WTL, JDC/WAM.
HB760 (Same As) 2023-03-10 - Referred to AEN/WTL, JDC/WAM.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=1033&year=2023
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB1033_.HTM