HB 743 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY.

Summary

Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a model that assesses the fiscal impacts of land use development projects and regional infrastructure investments. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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HB743 → HB743_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to add a new Section 4 appropriating $150,000 annually for two fiscal years to hire a temporary planner to manage the fiscal impact model project. The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, likely as a placeholder. The document also includes metadata headers and formatting changes from a legislative tracking system.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on fiscal sustainability modeling, but the funding mechanism was expanded to include a dedicated temporary position.

FISCAL

Added Section 4 appropriating $150,000 per fiscal year (2025-2026 and 2026-2027) to hire one full-time equivalent temporary planner to manage the fiscal impact model development project.

TIMELINE

Changed the effective date of the Act from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000.

TECHNICAL

Added metadata headers and formatting artifacts from a legislative tracking system (e.g., author name, file dates, revision numbers) that were not present in the original bill text.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 710) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Poepoe, Woodson.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to WAL, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

16 primary · 0 co-sponsors