SB 561 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO CONSERVATION ENFORCEMENT.

Summary

Appropriates funds for equipment for the Oahu Branch of the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)

Issues: ✓ Environment

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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What changed between versions

SB561 → SB561_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill was converted from a formal legislative draft into a standardized digital template format, stripping out original formatting and page numbers while preserving the core policy content. The substantive policy changes include removing all specific dollar amounts from the appropriation section, changing the effective date from July 1, 2025 to January 1, 2050, and updating some terminology to reflect 'State' instead of 'people of Hawaii' in the findings section.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on conservation enforcement equipment for Oahu, but the funding amounts are now blank placeholders requiring legislative action to specify actual appropriations.

FISCAL

All specific dollar amounts in the appropriation section were removed and replaced with blank placeholders, requiring the legislature to specify actual funding levels.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to January 1, 2050, which appears to be a placeholder or error rather than an intentional policy change.

TECHNICAL

The document was reformatted from a traditional legislative bill format to a digital template format, removing page numbers, headers, and formatting markers while keeping the text content.

DEFINITION

Minor wording changes in the findings section, including changing 'people of Hawaii' to 'people of the State' and adding 'the' before 'State' in one instance.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from WTL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 586) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Feb 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Feb 5, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL has scheduled a public hearing on 02-10-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to WTL, WAM.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

6 primary · 0 co-sponsors