HB 1051 Summary

• Comprehensively updates Hawaii's energy emergency preparedness statutes by expanding data collection authority beyond fuel importers to include major energy producers, distributors, marketers, storers, transporters, and users.

• Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct systematic statistical and quantitative analyses of the state's energy resources, systems, and markets to prepare for, respond to, and recover from energy emergencies.

• Establishes strict confidentiality protections for all energy information collected, requiring a reasonable nexus between requested information and declared emergencies, with prohibitions on unauthorized disclosure or use beyond emergency management purposes.

• Mandates the department provide a report to the legislature within 60 days of a declared emergency detailing the specific information requested, its purpose, the nexus to the emergency, and resulting damages.

• Changes the rulemaking framework to align energy emergency provisions with federal and state all-hazards emergency management policies, updating planning and preparedness requirements from biennial to as-needed basis; effective July 1, 2050.