HB 969

  • Hawaii House Bill
  • 2025 Regular Session
  • Introduced in House Mar 06, 2025
  • Passed House Mar 04, 2025
  • Passed Senate Apr 08, 2025
  • Became Law Jul 01, 2025

Relating To Waste Or Disposal Facilities.

Abstract

Prohibits landfill units on land in an agricultural district with class A soils in a county with a population greater than five hundred thousand. Beginning 7/1/2025, narrows the prohibition on constructing, modifying, or expanding waste or disposal facilities within a one-half mile buffer zone of residential, school, or hospital property lines to apply specifically to landfill units or components of landfill units. Beginning 7/1/2025, prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of a landfill unit, or any component of a landfill unit, inland of an underground injection control line in a county with a population greater than five hundred thousand, with certain exemptions. (CD1)

Bill Sponsors (15)

Votes


Actions


Jul 01, 2025

House

Act 255, on 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1358).

Senate

Act 255, 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1358).

May 02, 2025

Senate

Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 821).

May 01, 2025

House

Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 888).

House

Transmitted to Governor.

Apr 30, 2025

House

Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 1 with Representative(s) Hussey, Iwamoto, Reyes Oda voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Kila, Lee, M., Marten, Muraoka, Shimizu voting no (7) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1).

Senate

Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) DeCorte). Excused, 0 (none).

Apr 25, 2025

Senate

Senate Conferees Changed: Senators Lee, C. added as Co-Chair. Senator Hashimoto discharged as Co-Chair.

Senate

Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 5:20 PM; Conference Room 329.

Senate

Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 1:40 PM; Conference Room 329.

House

Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-25-25 at 11:10AM in Conference Room 325.

House

Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 880).

Senate

48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 04-30-25

Senate

Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 227).

House

Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.

House

Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 227) as amended in (CD 1).

House

The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Hashem, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 0 Excused: none.

Senate

The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Lee, C., Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Inouye.

Apr 24, 2025

House

Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-25-25 8:30AM in conference room 325.

Apr 23, 2025

Senate

Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-25 4:00PM; Conference Room 329.

Apr 22, 2025

House

Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 862).

Senate

Senate Conferees Appointed: San Buenaventura Chair; Inouye, Hashimoto Co-Chairs; Fevella.

Apr 15, 2025

Senate

Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 732).

Apr 14, 2025

House

House Conferees Appointed: Lowen, Hashem, Poepoe, Takenouchi Co-Chairs; Perruso, Quinlan, Garcia.

House

Re-referred to EEP, WAL, JHA, FIN, referral sheet 31

  • Referral-Committee
Energy & Environmental Protection Water & Land Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Finance

Apr 11, 2025

Senate

Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 704).

Apr 10, 2025

House

House disagrees with Senate amendment (s).

Apr 08, 2025

Senate

Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) DeCorte). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House.

House

Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 697) in amended form (SD 2).

Apr 04, 2025

Senate

48 Hrs. Notice 04-08-25.

Senate

Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1760) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).

Apr 02, 2025

Senate

The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WAM were as follows: 13 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Moriwaki, Aquino, DeCoite, Elefante, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Kim, Lee, C., Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

Mar 27, 2025

Senate

The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 04-02-25 10:01AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference.

Mar 21, 2025

Senate

Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

  • Reading-2
  • Referral-Committee
Ways and Means

Senate

Reported from HHS/WTL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1223) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

Mar 17, 2025

Senate

The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) DeCorte; and 0 Excused: none.

Senate

The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

Mar 11, 2025

Senate

The committee(s) on HHS/WTL has scheduled a public hearing on 03-17-25 1:15PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

Mar 06, 2025

Senate

Referred to HHS/WTL, WAM.

  • Referral-Committee
Health and Human Services Water and Land Ways and Means

Senate

Passed First Reading.

Senate

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 310).

Mar 04, 2025

House

Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Hussey, Marten, Reyes Oda, Shimizu voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Kila, Muraoka voting no (2) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate.

Feb 28, 2025

House

Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25.

House

Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1096) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.

Feb 27, 2025

House

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Garcia, Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

Feb 25, 2025

House

Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Thursday, 02-27-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

Feb 13, 2025

House

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA with Representative(s) Garcia, Kila voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa, Ward excused (3).

House

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 593), recommending referral to JHA.

Feb 11, 2025

House

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.

Feb 07, 2025

House

Bill scheduled to be heard by WAL on Tuesday, 02-11-25 10:00AM in House conference room 411 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

Feb 04, 2025

House

Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on WAL with Representative(s) Kila voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kong, Ward excused (3).

  • Reading-2
  • Referral-Committee
Water & Land

House

Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 101) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to WAL.

Jan 30, 2025

House

The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

Jan 27, 2025

House

Bill scheduled to be heard by EEP on Thursday, 01-30-25 9:00AM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

Jan 23, 2025

House

Referred to EEP, WAL, JHA, referral sheet 3

  • Referral-Committee
Energy & Environmental Protection Water & Land Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

House

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

Jan 21, 2025

House

Pending introduction.

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