HB 2331 Summary

• Establishes a long-term recovery authority within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster recovery efforts and recommend resilient recovery policies and legislative recommendations.

• Long-term recovery authority includes the adjutant general, HEMA administrator, FEMA state coordinating officer, director of finance, county mayors, and directors of state agencies responsible for recovery support functions.

• State disaster recovery coordinator reports to the governor, convenes the authority, establishes recovery priorities, coordinates local/state/federal agencies, and submits annual reports to the governor, legislature, and counties by twenty days prior to the 2021 regular session.

• Authorizes the office of the governor to establish 2.0 full-time equivalent planner positions to support the coordinator and authority without regard to civil service chapters 76 and 89.

• Appropriates general revenues for fiscal year 2020-2021 (amount not specified in bill text) to be expended by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency; appropriations effective July 1, 2020.