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HB949 HD2 Establishes and appropriates funds for a solar energy storage system loan program to provide asset limited, income constrained, employed households with low-interest loans to purchase and install solar energy storage systems. Establishes and appropriates funds for a renewable energy system installation loan program to provide asset limited, income constrained, employed households with low-interest loans to purchase and install residential photovoltaic and energy storage systems, including battery storage systems. (HD2)

SB968 SD2 Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to collaborate with the Department of Transportation to develop, implement, administer, and manage programs to enable parking stall sharing among public employees of the State, accommodate more electric vehicle charging stations, provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees, and ensure that all new public housing developments' parking stalls to include electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle storage lockers. (SD2)

SB1024 SD2 Establishes long-term goals for zero-emissions transportation in Hawaii and abroad to reduce and eliminate transportation emissions. Establishes the clean ground transportation working group and the interisland and transpacific clean transportation working group. Requires annual reports to the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission and the legislature.

SB965 SD2 Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementation, and maintenance of green transportation infrastructure. (SD2)

HB654 HD2 Requires state agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the Hawaii state energy office. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)

HB346 HD2 Requires that the design of new state facilities be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii state energy office, in consultation with the department of accounting and general services and department of transportation, to survey and identify high priority state facilities for which the office will consider cost assessments for retrofitting. Establishes a goal of the State to retrofit state facilities to be electric vehicle charger-ready. Appropriates funds.

SB781 SD2 HD1 Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits in territories served by an investor-owned electric utility to adopt self-certification for residential and commercial on-site solar distributed energy resource systems that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Makes the professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape architects licensure law inapplicable to work with respect to residential distributed energy resource systems. (HD1)

SB426 SD2 HD1 Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2030, with certain exceptions, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, rather than before 1/1/2050. (HD1)

SB376 SD2 HD1 Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mining, extraction, or removal of minerals from the seabed within state marine waters. (HD1)

SB304 SD2 HD1 Establishes the Visitor Impact Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other state natural area. Establishes the Visitor Impact Fee Special Fund. Appropriates funds for the Visitor Impact Fee Strategic Plan and positions for the Visitor Impact Fee Program. (HD1)

SCR113 URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO MINIMIZE HUMAN INTERACTION AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS DURING CORAL SPAWNING EVENTS.

HB952 HD1 Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. (HD1)

HB837 HD1 Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Adds definition of "green infrastructure". Requires the office of planning and sustainable development, in partnership with the greenhouse gas sequestration task force, to submit a report to the legislature making recommendations for implementing the green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines. (HD1)

SCR41 DESIGNATING HAWAII'S CORAL REEFS AS CRITICAL NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND STRONGLY SUPPORTING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS SUCH AS CORAL REEF RESTORATION FOR RISK REDUCTION.

HB441 HD1 Appropriates funds for the development of a database and data portal from data sources detailed in the May 2022 report on social vulnerability to climate change in Hawaii, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds for the maintenance and updating of the data portal. (HD1)

SB1534 SD2 HD1 Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes beginning on July 1, 2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of paying a registration surcharge or a per-mile road usage charge until June 30, 2028. Requires motor vehicle registration application to specify whether the type of fuel for which the vehicle is adapted is electricity. Requires certificates of inspection to state the odometer reading of vehicles. Requires the department of transportation to plan for the deployment of a state mileage-based road user charge program by 2033 and submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2026. Defines electric vehicle. Defines alternative fuel vehicle. Makes an appropriation. (HD1)