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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To State Water Code Penalties. [SB-1461]
Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty 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 offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to consider certain factors when imposing penalties.
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Relating To Historic Preservation Reviews Of State Affordable Housing Projects. [SB-1327]
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the effect of any proposed State affordable housing project within ninety days of a request for determination. Sets forth the historic review requirements based on the project area's known historic, cultural, and archaeological resources.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To A State Historic Preservation Income Tax Credit. [SB-1462]
Reenacts the Historic Preservation Income Tax Credit. Establishes an annual cap amount on the tax credit of $1,000,000. Effective 7/1/3000. Sunsets 12/31/2030. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Environmental Stewardship Fees. [SB-1458]
Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources the environmental stewardship fee program to collect a fee from visitors through an environmental stewardship license and allocate the revenue to protect, restore, and manage natural and cultural resources through grants to nonprofit organizations. Establishes the environmental stewardship fee special fund. Establishes the Environmental Stewardship Commission to make recommendations to the Board of Land and Natural Resources regarding the use of revenues in the special fund. Requires
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Historic Preservation Reviews Of State Affordable Housing Projects. [HB-1008]
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the effect of any proposed State affordable housing project within ninety days of a request for determination. Bases the historic review requirements on the project area's known or likely density of historic, cultural, and archaeological resources or previous identification of no significant historic properties. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Stormwater Management Systems. [SB-1221]
Requires the counties to adopt ordinances for the regulation of retention and detention ponds. Requires the counties to conduct a survey of existing retention and detention ponds and make a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the counties. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Burial Sites. [SB-1266]
Establishes an inter-division program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources consisting of certain agencies to address the location, movement, and restoration of Hawaiian burial sites or iwi, exposed or likely to be exposed by coastal erosion. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Department Of Land And Natural Resources. [HB-913]
Appropriates funds to establish positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Microplastics. [HB-965]
Establishes a microplastic filtration rebate program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Climate Change. [SB-1267]
Transfers the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development for administrative purposes. Removes the manager of the Coastal Zone Management Program from the Commission. Adds a representative from the University of Hawaii to the Commission. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To State-owned Historic Properties And Inherited Lands. [SB-1275]
Establishes the State-Owned Historic Properties Preservation Plan Working Group within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to ensure the preservation of state-owned historic properties and inherited lands. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Historic Preservation. [SB-1263]
Amends the procedures and required information for the Department of Land and Natural Resources historic preservation review of proposed state projects, privately owned historic property, and other proposed projects that require entitlement for use. Establishes procedures for the review of transit-oriented development identified by the counties and Hawaii Community Development Authority, or Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Carbon Sequestration Incentives. [HB-975]
Codifies and makes permanent the Hawaii Carbon Smart Land Management Assistance Program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Historic Preservation Reviews. [HB-830]
Beginning 7/1/2027 requires the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately-owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the projects involve the development of affordable housing and the division, after an initial evaluation, determines it will not be able to complete its review within sixty days. Establishes requirements for qualified third-party consultants providing review services.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Disabilities. [HB-868]
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to evaluate its facilities for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and compile a list of non-compliant facilities. Requires report to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Carbon Sequestration Incentives. [SB-1178]
Codifies and makes permanent the Hawaii Carbon Smart Land Management Assistance Program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Structural Integrity Assessments. [SB-1168]
Establishes and appropriates moneys for the development of a structural integrity assessment program within the Department of Accounting and General Services to inspect certain multi-story structures. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop a standardized assessment methodology, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii and Department of Land and Natural Resources, for use in program inspections. Requires the program to begin with assessments of structures in South Maui and West Maui. Requires annual reports to
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Decarbonization. [HB-787]
Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to study the feasibility of implementing a "buy clean" decarbonization policy and program in Hawaii. Requires administrative and substantive support from the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Department Of Land And Natural Resources. [SB-1084]
Appropriates funds to establish positions within the Division of Aquatic Resources of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Invasive Species. [SB-1072]
Appropriates funds to support the efforts of the Division of Aquatic Resources in the removal of the majano anemone from Kaneohe Bay.