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Votes at a glance: multiple bills advanced in joint Senate committee hearings Feb. 7
Summary
On Feb. 7, several housing, historic-preservation, and land-use bills were acted on by joint Senate committees; most were passed with committee amendments, some were deferred. This roundup lists each bill, the committees that acted, the committee outcome, and key technical notes from testimony.
Senate committees meeting jointly on Feb. 7 took final committee action on multiple bills covering housing, historic-preservation review, transit-oriented development and burial-site work. Below are the committee actions recorded in the hearing and the key technical or legal points the committees asked staff to include in committee reports.
Nut graf: The committees generally approved chair recommendations to pass several measures with amendments that incorporated agency technical fixes (Attorney General, DLNR, Department of Health, DPP) or limited scopes (disaster recovery language for Maui housing bills); a few measures were deferred for later consideration.
Summary of committee actions (by bill):
- SB 443 (agricultural lands / solar energy): Passed with amendments. Committees replaced an explicit BLNR certification requirement with a permit-condition approach and directed staff to reference HRS §165-2; agencies recommended shifting verification roles to the Department of Agriculture. (Committees on Water and Land; Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs.)
- SB 789 / SB 13-27 (historic-preservation reviews for housing projects): Passed with…
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