| HI | HB2100 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to increase the cesspool compliance pilot grant project grant amount and update a reference. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 and to establish positions to implement the pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1998 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a goal to transition all state-owned, non-road vehicles to be zero-emission vehicles by the end of 2045. Defines non-road vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1894 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2066 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a cesspool conversion on-bill financing program to be administered by the Hawaii green infrastructure authority to provide low-interest loans to eligible homeowners for the upgrade, conversion, or connection of cesspools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1898 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for two full-time positions to implement the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project established by Act 153, SLH 2022, and makes an appropriation for the project for FY 2024-2025. Declares that the general fund expe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1890 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2740 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii zero waste initiative to manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2562 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective 1/1/2025, prohibits the retail sale or offer for retail sale of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption, with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii environmental protection agency within the department of land and natural resources. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the department of agriculture and department of health to the Hawaii environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2296 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the construction of overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit to the Public Utilities Commission a report identifying the areas of the State having the highest r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1680 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to direct each electric and gas utility company in the State to file proposals for programs to provide certain benefits to residential property owners in fire-prone areas to reduce or eliminate the impacts of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1516 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nuclear energy commission within the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study the feasibility, risks, and benefits of developing nuclear energy generation facilities in Hawaii. Requires report to the legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Public Utilities Commission to convene community outreach workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1679 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all telecommunications service providers to communicate relevant information relating to the deenergization of electrical lines to public safety or emergency response offices for the affected areas. Requires all electric utility companies to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2689 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires rental motor vehicle lessors with more than two hundred light duty passenger vehicles to expedite the incorporation of zero-emission vehicles, as a percentage, into the lessor's fleet by certain dates. Requires all rental motor vehicle lesso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the safe disposal of toxic and incinerator ash. Prohibits the reuse of toxic and incinerator ash for any purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2796 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires waste combustion facility owners to implement continuous monitoring and sampling technologies for the purposes of collecting data regarding emissions. Establishes a publicly available website hosted by the Department of Health that will trac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2783 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the PFAS Testing Grant Program within the Department of Health to provide funding to assist communities, businesses, and residents throughout the State in obtaining testing services and biological sampling to identify and detect perfluoro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program within the State Energy Office to work with the Department of Transportation and fuel suppliers in order to establish a sustainable fuel portfolio standard for the use of sustainable aviation f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2799 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies that monitor environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels (EALs) to ensure the preservation of a safe environment. Prohibits modifications to EALs unless certain procedural requirements are met....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2569 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for geothermal energy exploration. Requires surface and subsurface exploration and community outreach. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure cei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a wastewater treatment plant to test sewage sludge and any other residual material for the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Requires the Department of Health to adopt administrative rules for the safe disposal and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2784 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2408 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the senior advisor on climate position within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Makes the senior advisor on climate a member of the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2389 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the State's energy efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals, and clarifies procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a clean vehicle special fund to incentivize the purchase of vehicles that produce less carbon emissions by providing a rebate. Creates a gasoline-powered vehicle tax, graduated based on fuel efficiency, to be paid by purchasers of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2786 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2368 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1586 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1702 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces zoning restrictions for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2178 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1995 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1895 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1796 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1693 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2099 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1994 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1973 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1891 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
