| HI | SB2620 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of potable water to irrigate golf courses subject to certain exceptions. Defines potable water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2478 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish imu infrastructure in state parks. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2648 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2761 | Intro
25% | Authorizes 2 or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to meet during the transition period described in section 195H-6, HRS, regarding any matter relating to the Authority's business; provided that no commitment to vote is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2587 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to compile a list of approved archaeologists to ensure the quality and integrity of archaeological services contracted by developers. Specifies informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2906 | Intro
25% | Establishes an annual fee on landowners who own more than 500 acres to be collected by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Uses the revenue for firefighting and fire prevention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2755 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the use of special land and development fund moneys to eradicate or mitigate invasive species and install and maintain safety improvements on improved lands that provide lease revenue to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2915 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2621 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "endangered species". Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate as an endangered species any species of land plant as required by legislative act. Directs the department to designate certain species o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2912 | Intro
25% | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2914 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2950 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" used in historic preservation laws to remove the minimum age and require listing on the Hawaii or national register of historic places or built before August 21, 1959. Broadens exclusions from historic rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2656 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of Commission on Water Resource Management members from 7 to 8, with only 5 of the 8 members required to have substantial experience in water resource management. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2438 | Intro
25% | Requires, rather than allows, any person who violates chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to appear before the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Requires, rather than allows, the Board of Land and Natural Resources to impose fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2955 | Intro
25% | Establishes a dam and reservoir working group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State and consider their role in drought mitigation and the maintenance of a dependable water supply. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2869 | Intro
25% | Designates each county as the special management area authority within the county's respective jurisdiction. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2766 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Panaewa community development district to allow for planning, development, and maintenance of public lands in Panaewa, Hawaii. Amends membership of the Hawaii community development authority to include representatives of the Panaewa c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2798 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2954 | Intro
25% | Statutorily establishes a Department of Land and Natural Resources transaction fee for each recording in the Bureau of Conveyances and Land Court. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt, amend, or repeal administrative fees, incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2442 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2441 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definition of "lineal descent", in HAR, to allow applicants to better claim lineal descent status to remains found at burial sites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2394 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 and a maximum penalty of $60,000 per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2408 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2440 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to compile a list of approved archaeologists to ensure the quality and integrity of archaeological services contracted by developers. Specifies informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2383 | Intro
25% | Repeals the fuel tax credit for commercial fishers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2313 | Intro
25% | Requires certain owners and occupants of properties located in hazardous fire areas to maintain effective firebreaks within thirty feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities. Establishes the Community Fuels Reduction Projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2293 | Intro
25% | Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary Native Hawaiian practices and on traditional kalo lands from the existing process for the disposition of water rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2299 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it shall be unlawful for any person to use nets made of or using netting with a stretched mesh of less than two inches, except that aquarium fish collectors with a valid aquarium fish permit may use traps and nets for aquarium fish a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2298 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources shall not unilaterally amend the terms and conditions of any lease of public lands being extended pursuant to Act 149, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, except as otherwise provided therein; and if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2166 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Visitor Impact Special Fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds for the Visitor Impact Special Fund and establishment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2154 | Intro
25% | Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2080 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2158 | Intro
25% | Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish by persons who are fishing in state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2163 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the continuation of the Green Jobs Youth Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2146 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2168 | Intro
25% | Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2164 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the Department of Land a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2160 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a plan for a more sustainable, resilient local food economy and to report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB69 | Intro
25% | Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the promotion of research, study, and understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1399 | Intro
25% | Exempts the State and its departments and agencies that maintain or operate a stormwater management system that is interconnected to a county stormwater system from county stormwater user fees. Prohibits each county from denying services to the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1063 | Intro
25% | Increases the percentage of the Land Conservation Fund that may be used for costs related to the operation, maintenance, and management of lands acquired by the fund. Increases the maximum dollar amount of the conveyance tax distribution to the Land ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB769 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the appropriate county land use decision-making authority to determine district boundary amendments involving land areas over fifteen acres if the county has adopted an ordinance that meets certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1257 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Hawaii historic preservation special fund may be used to repair and maintain historic government properties, except properties maintained through a separate, dedicated funding source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB622 | Intro
25% | Requires that all lease extensions for public lands be subject to public auction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB994 | Intro
25% | Prohibits all removal of uhu, also known as parrotfish, from state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1036 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue special activity permits for the purpose of recognizing and protecting individuals exercising their Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB790 | Intro
25% | Prohibits dispositions that authorize diverting water from East Maui county streams for commercial purposes, except for existing water uses by the Maui County Department of Water Supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1525 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of land and natural resources to identify all state and county roads, landmarks, monuments, and public parks that use the name Diamond Head and identify the process for renaming these roads, landmarks, and public parks from Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB680 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Ahu o Laka State Monument. Prohibits certain activities at the Ahu o Laka State Monument.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1031 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources' state historic preservation division for a library digitization process and for the division's operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
