Bill Text: HI HB2371 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To A Climate Adaption And Resilience Implementation Plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-26 - Referred to WAL/EEP, FIN, referral sheet 3 [HB2371 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2371-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO A CLIMATE ADAPTION AND RESILIENCE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The legislature finds
that many specific plans related to the State's climate
adaptation have been published, including the coral bleaching recovery report,
the Hawaii sea level rise vulnerability and adaptation report, the multi-hazard
mitigation plan, the Hawaii highways climate adaptation action plan, and the
Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan.
However, there is no statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation
plan assessing the overall financial risk to and exposure of the state
associated with climate change.
The purpose of this Act is to require the office
of planning and sustainable development to develop and publish a
statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan.
SECTION 2. Chapter 226, Hawaii
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding to part II, a new section to be appropriately
designated and to read as follows:
"§226- Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation
plan. (a) The office of planning and sustainable development
shall publish a climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan every five
years, in alignment with the Hawaii State Planning Act, state functional and county
general plans, Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan, county climate and sustainability
plans, the Hawaii climate mitigation and adaptation initiative, the State's multiple sustainability and climate targets, and best recent
climate science available.
(b)
The purpose of the Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation
plan shall be to:
(1) Aggregate climate
risk and hazard that can be used for statewide and regional vulnerability and adaptation
planning;
(2) Determine the
overall financial risk and exposure to the state associated with recent and best
climate science and modeling available;
(3) Assess a range
of options for the State to adapt to multiple hazards and climate change impacts;
and
(4) Recommend adaptive
land use, development, and infrastructure adaptations to jointly protect and mutually
enhance local economies, the environment, and community well-being for the present
and future benefit of the people of Hawaii.
(c)
The Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan shall incorporate
the recommendations of the Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan pursuant to section 226-65;
the Hawaii sea level rise vulnerability and adaptation report pursuant to section
225P-3; the multi-hazard mitigation plan; the State's reports coordinating sea level adaptation activities pursuant
to section 225M-9; the Hawaii drought plan; the Hawaii water plan; statewide community-based
wildfire protection plans; county general plans; and county climate and sustainability
plans, as needed.
(d) The
office shall submit the Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation
plan to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the
regular session of 2027 and shall submit updates of the Hawaii climate adaptation
and resilience implementation plan every five years thereafter."
SECTION 3. There is appropriated
out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $500,000 or so much
thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the establishment of
two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) planner V positions; one full-time equivalent
(1.0 FTE) planner IV position; and computers, publication costs, website and
multimedia public outreach, management and service fees, and other expenses.
The sum appropriated
shall be expended by the office of planning and sustainable development for the
purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. New statutory material
is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on July 1, 2024.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
State Climate Adaptation and Resilience Implementation Plan; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan.
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
