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HI SB513

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/17/2025

Primary Sponsor

Tim Richards

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the Department of Health to permit counties to implement gray water recycling programs allowing farms of less than ten square acres to use gray water for irrigation.

  • Restricts gray water use on farms to non-edible vegetation in areas with limited public access, fodder/fiber/seed crops not consumed by humans, or timber and trees not bearing food crops.

  • Adds farms to the existing gray water recycling program, which previously limited gray water use to lawns and gardens only.

  • Requires all gray water use to conform to the state plumbing code, chapter 3-183, Hawaii administrative rules.

  • Becomes effective upon approval.

Legislative Description

Relating To Water.

Agriculture

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
Health and Human Services1/21/2025

Full Bill Text

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