Bill Text: HI HB2148 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Endangered and Threatened Species; Habitat Conservation Plans; Endangered Species Recovery Committee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-19 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nakashima, Thielen, Tokioka excused (3). [HB2148 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2148-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2148

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Act 380, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997, as amended by Act 3, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, as amended by Act 90, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, as amended by Act 145, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, is amended by amending section 13 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 13.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval[; provided that no new safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, or incidental take licenses issued pursuant to section 195D-4, 195D-21, or 195D-22, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be approved or issued on or after June 30, 2017]."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Endangered and Threatened Species; Habitat Conservation Plans; Endangered Species Recovery Committee

 

Description:

Removes the sunset date on new approvals and issuances of safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species.

 

 

 

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