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HI HB1367

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2025

Primary Sponsor

Rachele Fernandez Lamosao

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for an unspecified amount to fund a capital improvement project for the Honolulu Board of Water Supply.

  • Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2025-2026 to plan, design, and construct up to six groundwater aquifer monitoring wells near the Red Hill bulk fuel storage facility on Oahu.

  • Establishes that the appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium, but any unencumbered moneys shall lapse as of June 30, 2028.

  • Addresses contamination risks from the Red Hill facility, an underground Navy fuel storage system constructed in the 1940s that sits approximately 100 feet above Oahu's sole-source groundwater aquifer and has experienced multiple fuel and chemical releases totaling an estimated 644,000 to 1,940,000 gallons.

  • Contains a technical error with an effective date of July 1, 3000, which appears to be a drafting mistake.

Legislative Description

Relating To Water Resources.

Appropriation ($)

Last Action

Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

2/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Finance2/14/2025
Energy & Environmental Protection1/27/2025

Full Bill Text

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