Bill Text: HI SB1068 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Beaches.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-25 - Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). [SB1068 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB1068-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO BEACHES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 226-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) To achieve the land-based, shoreline, and marine resources objectives, it shall be the policy of this State to:
(1) Exercise
an overall conservation ethic in the use of Hawaii's natural resources.
(2) Ensure
compatibility between land-based and water‑based activities and natural
resources and ecological systems.
(3) Take
into account the physical attributes of areas when planning and designing
activities and facilities.
(4) Manage
natural resources and environs to encourage their beneficial and multiple use
without generating costly or irreparable environmental damage.
(5) Consider
multiple uses in watershed areas[,]; provided [such] that
the uses do not detrimentally affect water quality and recharge functions.
(6) Encourage
the protection of rare or endangered plant and animal species and habitats
native to Hawaii.
(7) Provide
public incentives that encourage private actions to protect significant natural
resources from degradation or unnecessary depletion.
(8) Pursue
compatible relationships among activities, facilities, Native Hawaiian
traditional practices mauka and makai, and natural resources.
(9) Promote increased accessibility and prudent use of inland and shoreline areas for public recreational, educational, and scientific purposes.
(10) Promote statewide beach assessments and beach and shoreline restoration and conservation to develop feasible beach and shoreline restoration or conservation options."
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2023-2024 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the development of a statewide beach assessment study and a beach and shoreline restoration and conservation plan; provided that the office of planning and sustainable development shall submit the statewide beach assessment study and shoreline restoration and conservation plan to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2025.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the office of planning and sustainable development for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Hawaii State Planning Act; OPSD; Beach Assessment Study; Beach and Shoreline Restoration and Conservation Plan; Appropriation
Description:
Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the promotion of statewide beach assessments and beach and shoreline restoration and conservation and the pursuit of compatible relationships among activities, facilities, Native Hawaiian traditional practices mauka to makai, and natural resources. Appropriates funds to the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development for the development of a statewide beach assessment study and shoreline restoration and conservation plan. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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