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Senate committee approves tax credit, rebate and building-code standards to promote graywater and atmospheric water systems
Summary
The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Environment voted to pass SB547 with amendments to create an income tax credit, a state rebate program and building-code standards to encourage graywater recycling systems and atmospheric water generators.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Environment on Feb. 12 voted to pass Senate Bill 547 with amendments to encourage installation and use of graywater recycling systems and atmospheric water generators in Hawaii.
Committee Chair (listed in the transcript as Chair) told members the measure would establish an income tax credit administered by the Department of Taxation, require the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to set up a rebate program, and direct the State Building Code Council to adopt standards for graywater recycling systems and atmospheric water generators. The chair said the effective date in the bill would be deferred to July 1, 2050.
The bill passed on a voice vote the committee recorded as five ayes and no recorded dissent. The transcript records Chair, Vice Chair, Senator DeCoite, Senator Rhoads and Senator Owa voting in favor; the motion was adopted.
The measure as amended assigns program and regulatory roles to three state agencies: the Department of Taxation (to administer the proposed income tax credit), the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (to run the rebate program), and the State Building Code Council (to adopt technical standards). The committee did not record further debate in the transcript on funding levels, eligibility criteria for the tax credit or the rebate, or a timeline for adoption of code standards beyond the deferred effective date.
The committee hearing opened and closed in Room 224 with remote participants; the chair called for discussion before taking the vote but no substantive objections or amendments were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
The committee’s passage is a committee-level approval; the transcript does not record subsequent committee referrals, final enactment, or specific dollar amounts tied to the tax credit or rebate.
SB547 provenance: transcript blocks introducing and describing the bill appear in the hearing record beginning at the block that starts at 1256.4601 seconds and the committee recorded its vote in the blocks beginning at 1318.17 seconds.
