HR 63 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO FACILITATE AND ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUELS TO DECARBONIZE HAWAIʻI'S TRANSPORTATION SECTOR AND SUPPORT THE STATE'S CLIMATE GOALS.

This House Resolution (HR 63) requests the Hawai'i Department of Transportation to accelerate the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) in the state's aviation sector to reduce carbon emissions. It directs the DOT to collaborate with the Hawai'i State Energy Office, airlines, and fuel producers to develop policies, incentives, and infrastructure for SAF production and use. The resolution also requires the DOT to integrate SAF adoption into the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan and submit a progress report to the Legislature by 2026.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 3, 2025

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HR63 → HR63_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The document was reformatted from a legislative bill to a metadata file and back, with minor text corrections. The substantive policy content remains unchanged: the bill still requests the Department of Transportation to accelerate sustainable aviation fuel adoption to meet Hawaii's climate goals. The changes are primarily formatting and metadata additions rather than policy modifications.

Scope change

No substantive scope change; the bill's applicability and requirements remain identical to the original version.

TECHNICAL

Document structure was converted from a legislative bill format to a metadata file format and back, with some text formatting adjustments.

Minor text corrections were made, such as changing 'forty-eight percent' to 'approximately forty-eight percent' and adjusting some punctuation.

Metadata headers and timestamps were added to the beginning of the document.

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How they voted

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

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Committee

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Muraoka, Pierick, Souza voting no (4) and Representative(s) Cochran, Woodson excused (2).

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1838), recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Muraoka; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick.

lower

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on TRN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Pierick, Souza voting no (3) and Representative(s) Hashem, Hussey, Templo, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1580) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to TRN.

lower

Mar 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward.

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to EEP, TRN, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

4 primary · 0 co-sponsors