HB 781 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO THE WAIAHOLE WATER SYSTEM.

HB 781 appropriates funds for the Waiahole Water System to cover bond debt service (repaying borrowed money) and tunnel repair. It directly affects the Waiahole Water System, which manages water infrastructure on Oahu. The bill allocates specific state funds for these two purposes, with the funding effective July 1, 3000. This is a funding measure, not a policy change to water management rules.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 11, 2025

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HB781 → HB781_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a legislative draft to a House Committee version with updated metadata and metadata fields. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, though Section 2's appropriation amount was left blank (showing '$') in the new version, and the effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which appears to be an error. The bill's purpose of funding Waiahole Water System debt service and tunnel repairs is unchanged.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which is likely a clerical error.

FISCAL

Section 2's appropriation amount was changed from '$4,500,000' to a blank '$' field, removing the specific funding amount.

TECHNICAL

Added metadata fields including author name (Chris Kobayashi), file information, and report title/description in the header section.

Removed page numbers and formatting artifacts from the original draft version.

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Committee

Feb 11, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Ward excused (2).

lower

Feb 11, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 357), recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama.

lower

Jan 31, 2025

Committee

Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 24) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to WAL.

lower

Jan 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to AGR, WAL, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

4 primary · 0 co-sponsors