HB 1060 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.

Summary

Establishes the Community Readiness Centers Program to be implemented and administered by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Establishes the Community Readiness Centers Special Fund to fund the Community Readiness Centers Program. Renames the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax to the Environmental Response, Energy, Food Security, and Resilience Tax and directs a portion of the tax into the Community Readiness Centers Special Fund. 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 21, 2025 Last action Dec 8, 2025

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HB1060 → HB1060_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill version (HD1) refines the legislative text for HB 1060, primarily updating the bill title, metadata, and formatting to reflect House of Representatives action. It clarifies that residents, rather than just communities, should be involved in designing community readiness centers and updates the tax name to include 'resilience.'

Scope change

The bill's scope was slightly clarified to explicitly include resident involvement in the design of community readiness centers, and the tax title was expanded to include 'resilience.'

REQUIREMENT

Changed the requirement for community involvement in site design from 'communities' to 'residents' to ensure direct public participation.

DEFINITION

Updated the name of the tax from 'Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax' to 'Environmental Response, Energy, Food Security, and Resilience Tax'.

TECHNICAL

Corrected capitalization in the fund name from 'community readiness centers special fund' to 'Community readiness centers special fund' and fixed a typo in the fund description.

Adjusted the effective date placeholder in the summary from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 3000, likely indicating a future placeholder or error in this specific draft version.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 772) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Iwamoto; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Shimizu; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Hashem, Morikawa, Woodson.

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to PBS, FIN, referral sheet 3

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors