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OHA staff brief BAE committee on 2025 legislative outcomes; flags bills for monitoring and rulemaking
Summary
Office of Hawaiian Affairs staff presented a high-level wrap-up of the 2025 legislative session, highlighting passed bills (including SB739), bills that died (DHHL funding bill), housing and health measures, and plans for monitoring implementation and rulemaking.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs staff presented a high-level wrap-up of the 2025 legislative session to the BAE committee on July 23, summarizing major outcomes and identifying bills the agency will monitor during implementation and rulemaking.
The presenter said the OHA budget bill passed with flat funding and that work on an electric-vehicle (EV) working group is ongoing. The presenter identified SB739 as one of the main bills that passed and said OHA had requested that parcels the state acquires in exchange be classified as public land and subject to a 20% designation; the presenter said the bill requires Board of Land and Natural Resources review but does not include the legislative-approval condition OHA requested.
The presentation flagged several policy areas and legislative outcomes: - Land and ceded-lands policy: SB739 passed; OHA will…
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