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HI SB346

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/5/2019

Primary Sponsor

Kurt Fevella

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Origin

Senate

2019 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to compile a list of evacuation routes by January 1, 2020, and update it no less than every five years thereafter.

  • Prohibits planting large trees (those with single trunks that will exceed 15 feet in height) within 15 feet of evacuation route roadways beginning July 1, 2020.

  • Mandates the agency establish a registry of existing large trees within 15 feet of evacuation routes by January 1, 2021, and update it on an ongoing basis.

  • Authorizes the agency to trim, spray, remove large trees, or order landowners to do so if trees pose potential obstruction to evacuation routes during emergencies.

  • Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 to implement the act; effective date is July 1, 2050.

Legislative Description

Relating To Disaster Preparedness.

Appropriation ($)

Last Action

The committee(s) on PVM recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.

3/13/2019

Committee Referrals

Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs3/7/2019
Ways and Means2/15/2019
Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs1/22/2019

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