Hawaii Senate Bill 1436

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
Pending: Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Exempts affordable housing and certain qualifying housing development projects from HEPA. Establishes a definition of "program" and "project" to preempt the existing definitions under section 11-200.1-2, Hawaii Administrative Rules, and narrow the existing interpretation that requires analysis of tangentially related projects. Amends the applicability and requirements section of HEPA to clarify when multiple actions must be considered in the same environmental review document for the purposes of project segmentation. Expands the requirement that project opponents must exhaust their administrative remedies as a prerequisite to litigation to apply to environmental assessments and environmental impact statements. Retroactively applies to projects that received approval for their environmental assessment or environmental impact statement on or after August 9, 2019.

Relating To Development Projects.

Sen. Gil Keith-agaran [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-12-11		Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
2023-01-30	Senate	Referred to AEN/HOU, JDC.
2023-01-25	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2023-01-25	Senate	Introduced.

HB1247 (Same As) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
SB1436 (Carry Over) 2023-01-30 - Referred to AEN/HOU, JDC.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=1436&year=2024
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2024/bills/SB1436_.HTM