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HI HB2692

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/5/2024

Primary Sponsor

Scott Saiki

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Origin

House of Representatives

2024 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes two or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, including a quorum, to meet during the five-year transition period to discuss authority business without being subject to Hawaii's public meeting law (Chapter 92).

  • Prohibits authority members from making voting commitments or taking decision-making actions at these informal meetings; all formal decisions must occur at properly noticed public meetings.

  • Clarifies that interactions between authority members under this provision do not constitute official meetings for purposes of Hawaii's Sunshine Law.

  • Applies state sovereign immunity to the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority by making section 26-35(b) of Hawaii Revised Statutes applicable to the authority.

  • Repeals the transition period meeting flexibility provision on June 30, 2028, limiting the exception to the five-year transition period.

Legislative Description

Relating To The Mauna Kea Stewardship And Oversight Authority.

Sovereign Immunity

Last Action

Referred to WTL, JDC.

3/7/2024

Committee Referrals

Water and Land3/7/2024
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs1/26/2024

Full Bill Text

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