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HI HB2327
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/28/2026
Primary Sponsor
Nadine Nakamura
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AI Summary
- Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve public and private conservation banks that protect threatened, endangered, candidate, and proposed species and their habitats in Hawaii
- Creates a credit system allowing conservation banks to sell mitigation credits to incidental take licensees who need to offset adverse impacts to protected species under habitat conservation plans
- Requires conservation bank applications to include resource management plans with goals, baseline species data, performance standards, monitoring requirements, maintenance plans, and long-term management plans
- Prohibits credit stacking (using overlapping credits for different permitted actions) but allows credit bundling (grouping overlapping ecosystem services into a single credit used once)
- Expands the Endangered Species Recovery Committee's authority to review conservation bank applications and updates committee membership to include the USGS Ecosystem Mission Area associate director
Legislative Description
Relating To Conservation Banks.
Department of Land and Natural Resources
Last Action
Referred to EEP, WAL, FIN, referral sheet 6
2/2/2026
Committee Referrals
Energy & Environmental Protection2/2/2026
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