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HI SB150

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/15/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jarrett Keohokalole

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes a Red Hill Water Alliance Initiative (WAI) Policy Coordinator position within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lead state implementation of WAI remediation recommendations from the November 2023 report.

  • Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund to receive legislative appropriations, gifts, donations, grants, and interest earnings for monitoring, applied research, public outreach, and evaluation of Red Hill contamination; federal government bears aquifer remediation costs.

  • Requires the WAI Policy Coordinator to facilitate implementation of WAI initiatives, monitor ecosystem health, maintain a public dashboard of test results, and coordinate a thirty-six-month public education program on post-defueling remediation phases.

  • Mandates all state and county agencies provide information and data requested by the WAI Policy Coordinator within thirty calendar days or an extended deadline at the coordinator's discretion.

  • Requires annual reports to the legislature, governor, and Honolulu mayor and city council beginning December 1, 2025, detailing the coordinator's activities and expenditures; bill takes effect January 1, 2050.

Legislative Description

Relating To Red Hill.

Red Hill Remediation Special Fund

Last Action

Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

2/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means2/14/2025
Water and Land1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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