HCR 122 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO ESTABLISH A COLLABORATIVE WORKING GROUP TO SURVEY, IDENTIFY, AND MONITOR CULTURALLY SENSITIVE SHORELINES IMPACTED BY EROSION.

HCR 122 is a House Concurrent Resolution requesting the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to establish a collaborative working group focused on culturally sensitive shorelines affected by erosion. The resolution directly addresses Native Hawaiian burial sites (iwi kupuna) exposed by coastal erosion at locations like Lahilahi Beach Park and Kaulahao Beach. The working group must include DLNR, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, county representatives, and burial councils to survey impacted areas, determine protection methods, identify suitable reinternment sites on public lands, and report findings to the legislature by 2026. This resolution does not create new laws but requests coordination to protect culturally significant sites threatened by erosion.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 17, 2025

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HCR122 → HCR122_HD1 · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a text-based legislative document to a structured digital template, with minor substantive changes to the working group membership and reporting requirements. The most significant policy change is the addition of a new working group member from the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, and the addition of the Administrator of that office to the list of recipients for the final report. The bill's core purpose remains unchanged: establishing a collaborative working group to address Native Hawaiian burial sites exposed by coastal erosion.

Scope change

The scope of the working group was slightly expanded by adding a representative from the Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands to the membership list.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new working group member: a representative from the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands.

Added the Administrator of the Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands to the list of officials who should receive copies of the final report.

TECHNICAL

Changed the designated entity responsible for disposition of discovered remains from 'State Historic Preservation Division' to 'appropriate Island Burial Council' in one version, though this appears to be a drafting inconsistency rather than a substantive policy change.

Removed specific county representatives (Kauai and Maui) from the member list in one version, but they were restored in the final version, indicating this was likely a formatting error.

Added metadata fields and digital formatting elements to convert the document from plain text to a structured legislative template.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Key actions

Committee

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted. Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 16, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from WTL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1917) with recommendation of adoption.

upper

Apr 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Chang.

upper

Apr 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL added the measure to the public hearing scheduled on 04-11-25 1:00PM; CR 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to WTL.

upper

Apr 4, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 529).

upper

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Souza voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Woodson excused (2).

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1818), recommending adoption.

lower

Mar 31, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Reyes Oda, Ward.

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Souza voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Hussey, Muraoka, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1691) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

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

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to WAL, FIN, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors