Hawaii Senate Bill 781 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 7 2023 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-04-28 - Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309.
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits in territories served by an investor-owned electric utility to adopt self-certification for residential and commercial on-site solar distributed energy resource systems that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Makes the professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape architects licensure law inapplicable to work with respect to residential distributed energy resource systems. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)

Relating To Renewable Energy.

Rep. Lynn Decoite [D]	Sen. Stanley Chang [D]	Sen. Gil Keith-agaran [D]	Sen. Angus McKelvey [D]
Sen. Michelle Kidani [D]	Sen. Glenn Wakai [D]

2023-03-01 - Senate - Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection: Passed, With Amendments (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-03-01 - Senate - Senate Ways and Means: Passed, With Amendments (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-09 - Senate - Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism: Passed, With Amendments (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-09 - Senate - Senate Government Operations: Passed, With Amendments (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-04-28	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309.
2023-04-28	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 3:46PM in conference room 325.
2023-04-28	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 12:36PM in conference room 325.
2023-04-27	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 10:35AM in conference room 325.
2023-04-26	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-27-23 10:35AM in conference room 325.
2023-04-24	House	Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-26-23 10:35AM in conference room 325.
2023-04-24	Senate	Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 840).
2023-04-21	House	House Conferees Appointed: Lowen, Ichiyama, Sayama, Kitagawa Co-Chairs; Hussey-Burdick, Ward.
2023-04-19	House	Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 911).
2023-04-19	Senate	Senate Conferees Appointed: DeCoite Chair; McKelvey, Keohokalole, Wakai Co-Chairs.
2023-04-11	House	Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 882).
2023-04-11	Senate	Senate disagrees with House amendments.
2023-04-11	Senate	Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 696).
2023-04-06	House	Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nishimoto excused (1). Transmitted to Senate.
2023-04-06	House	Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2068), recommending passage on Third Reading.
2023-03-31	House	The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Cochran, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Lamosao, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Takenouchi, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Poepoe, Alcos.
2023-03-29	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Friday, 03-31-23 2:00PM in House conference room 308 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2023-03-24	House	Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ilagan excused (1).
2023-03-24	House	Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1539) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to FIN.
2023-03-21	House	The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Nakashima, Sayama, Amato, Belatti, Hashem, Hussey-Burdick, Gates, Lowen, Tam, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Onishi; and Excused: none.
2023-03-17	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by CPC on Tuesday, 03-21-23 2:00PM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2023-03-17	House	Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1).
2023-03-17	House	Reported from EEP/WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1326) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.
2023-03-16	House	The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Poepoe, Chun, Ganaden, Hashem, Morikawa, Takayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
2023-03-16	House	The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Cochran, Kahaloa, Woodson, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Gates, Perruso.
2023-03-10	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by EEP/WAL on Thursday, 03-16-23 9:00AM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2023-03-09	House	Referred to EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 17
2023-03-09	House	Pass First Reading
2023-03-07	House	Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 263) in amended form (SD 2).
2023-03-07	Senate	Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Fukunaga). Transmitted to House.
2023-03-03	Senate	48 Hrs. Notice 03-07-23.
2023-03-03	Senate	Reported from CPN/WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 905) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
2023-03-01	Senate	The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WAM were as follows: 12 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Keith-Agaran, Aquino, DeCoite, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Kim, Lee, Moriwaki, Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Shimabukuro.
2023-03-01	Senate	The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
2023-02-24	Senate	The committee(s) on CPN/WAM will hold a public decision making on 03-01-23 9:30AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference.
2023-02-15	Senate	Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN/WAM.
2023-02-15	Senate	Reported from EET/GVO (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 279) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to CPN/WAM.
2023-02-09	Senate	The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Gabbard, Wakai; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) San Buenaventura ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none.
2023-02-09	Senate	The committee(s) on EET recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EET were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Kim, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fukunaga ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
2023-02-06	Senate	The committee(s) on EET/GVO has scheduled a public hearing on 02-09-23 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.
2023-01-25	Senate	Referred to EET/GVO, CPN/WAM.
2023-01-23	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2023-01-20	Senate	Introduced.

SB781 (Carry Over) 2023-04-28 - Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309.
HB195 (Same As) 2023-02-07 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=781&year=2023
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB781_.HTM
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB781_SD1_.HTM
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB781_SD2_.HTM
Roll Call	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=781&year=2023