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Infrastructure

SB3202 Prohibits county zoning ordinances from not allowing four or more residential units per residential lot within an urban district. Requires the counties to allow for attached and detached additional units or accessory dwelling units but authorizes the counties to impose certain restrictions. Provides that a parcel zoned for residential use that is in the state urban land use district shall not be prohibited from being subdivided, consolidated, or resubdivided under certain conditions. Requires the counties to consider the square footage of a development when determining the development's proportionate share of public facility capital improvement costs. Permits the appropriate board of water supply to calculate impact fees based on total number of fixtures when the public facility impacted is a water or sewage facility.

Energy

HB1828 Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the public utilities commission to establish interim goals.

Food

HB1969 Establishes the shade tree program in the Department of Education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to establish an arborist position.

Infrastructure

SB 1154 Requires the public utilities commission to open a docket and set a procedural schedule to determine whether and by which rules government agencies may engage in wheeling of electricity that is produced by renewable energy sources from their own facilities to another government agency's facilities, subject to certain restrictions.

Food

HB1775 Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds.

Infrastructure

HB 2090 Creates more mixed-use zoning by legalizing residential in all commercial zones

Infrastructure

HB 1630 Requires counties to allow for fourplexes and attached and detached additional units or accessory dwelling units in all residential zones.

Food

HB2083 Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a recognition program to incentivize schools to submit to the Department a plan for the school to reach the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food served in the school to consist of locally sourced products by 2030. Requires public high schools under the Department of Education to provide plantbased meals as an option under the school meals program.

Infrastructure

SB2948 Authorizes residential uses in areas zoned for commercial to be considered permitted as long as the residential use is limited by ordinance to floors above the ground floor of a building or structure and development standards are met. Exempts areas zoned under the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority. Requires each county to adopt ordinances that allow for adaptive reuse of existing commercial buildings in the county's building codes. Requires counties to facilitate compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act when adopting an adaptive reuse building code ordinance.

Food

SB2817 Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaiʻi to establish 5 full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) faculty positions at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.

Infrastructure

HB 1891 Requires the Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop strategies for vehicle miles traveled reduction in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.

Infrastructure

HB 2614 Requires agencies that issue building permits to use SolarAPP+, an online platform to process applications for solar panels.
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