HB 751 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO ORGANIC WASTE.

Summary

Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert certain organic waste generated within the county in alignment with established state benchmarks. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Mar 18, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB751_HD2 → HB751_SD1 · 5 edits

MODERATE

This bill was converted from a House Draft (HD2) to a Senate Draft (SD1), resulting in significant substantive changes. The most important change is the addition of a funding appropriation in Section 7, which allocates state money to the Department of Health to implement the organic waste program. The Senate version also added a new Section 6 requiring counties to update their solid waste management plans and Section 9 setting the effective date to July 1, 2050. The core organic waste diversion benchmarks and definitions remained largely the same between versions.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded to include explicit funding authorization and clearer implementation requirements for counties and the Department of Health.

FISCAL

Section 7 was added to appropriate state general revenues for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to fund the organic waste program, with the Department of Health responsible for expenditure.

REQUIREMENT

Section 6 was added to require each county to incorporate the new organic waste diversion requirements into their next integrated solid waste management plan revision.

TIMELINE

Section 9 was added to establish July 1, 2050 as the effective date for the Act.

TECHNICAL

The bill header was changed from House Draft (HD2) to Senate Draft (SD1), indicating the bill has moved to the Senate for consideration.

DEFINITION

Section 3 definitions were reformatted with clearer spacing and punctuation in the Senate version, though the substantive definitions remained the same.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 18, 2025

Committee

Reported from AEN/EIG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1130) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Chang, Richards; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite, Fevella.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN/EIG has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to AEN/EIG, WAM.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 279).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Cochran voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Matsumoto, Muraoka, Shimizu voting no (5) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 604) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

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

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to EEP, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

15 primary · 0 co-sponsors