HCR 28 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE RECONVENING OF THE WORKING GROUP ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 18, H.D. 1 (REGULAR SESSION OF 2024) TO CONTINUE THE EFFORTS TO ADDRESS ISSUES RELATED TO WATER AND AIR CONTAMINATION AND REMEDIATION ARISING FROM THE OPERATION OF THE PUULOA RANGE TRAINING FACILITY.

HCR 28 is a House Concurrent Resolution requesting the reconvening of a working group established in 2024 (via House Resolution 18) to address water and air contamination concerns from the Puuloa Range Training Facility. The resolution specifies that the group, co-chaired by a state representative and Honolulu City Councilmember, must include the Director of Health and continue work until June 30, 2027. This effort directly affects the Ewa Beach community, which neighbors the Marine Corps facility and faces risks from lead contamination in soil that could impact marine life and residential areas. The resolution does not create new laws but extends a collaborative process to evaluate remediation strategies.

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 4, 2025 Last action Apr 21, 2025

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HCR28 → HCR28_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a plain text legislative document into a structured digital template with metadata headers, while the substantive policy content remained largely the same. The main substantive change is the expansion of the working group's membership to include additional stakeholders like the Democratic Party of Hawaii and environmental coalition directors, and the addition of the Director of Health as an active participant rather than just chair.

Scope change

The scope of the working group was expanded to include additional community and environmental stakeholders beyond the original participants.

REQUIREMENT

Added the Director of Health or designee as an active member of the working group in addition to the chair and co-chairs

Expanded the list of recipients for certified copies of the resolution to include Co-Chairs of the Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Director of the Hawaii Reef & Ocean Coalition, Director of the Free Access Coalition, and Director of the Shimanchu Wai Protectors

CO-CHAIRS

Changed the co-chair arrangement from a single Representative of House District 40 to include both the Representative of House District 40 and the Councilmember for District 9 of the City and County of Honolulu as co-chairs and co-conveners

TECHNICAL

Added extensive metadata headers including document type, timestamps, revision numbers, and page numbers that were not present in the original plain text version

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

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Committee

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted. Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from HHS/AEN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1936) with recommendation of adoption.

upper

Apr 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fevella.

upper

Apr 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite, Awa.

upper

Apr 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS/AEN has scheduled a public hearing on 04-11-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 224 & Videoconference.

upper

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to HHS/AEN.

upper

Apr 4, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 504).

upper

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Woodson excused (2).

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1884), recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan.

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on EEP as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Garrett, Holt, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Committee

Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1530) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to EEP.

lower

Mar 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to HLT, EEP, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors