HR 43 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

URGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO WORK WITH STAKEHOLDERS TO CONSTRUCT AN EMERGENCY ACCESS ROAD ON THE WAIʻANAE COAST.

HR 43 is a non-binding House Resolution urging the City and County of Honolulu to develop an alternative emergency access road on the Waiʻanae Coast. It directly affects communities of Waiʻanae, Makaha, Maʻili, and Nānākuli, which currently rely solely on Farrington Highway for emergency access. The resolution requests collaboration with the military, transportation agencies, and emergency management to create a new route, hold community meetings for input, and submit plans with a completion timeline to the Legislature by 2026. It does not mandate construction but emphasizes improving safety after issues like locked gates and single-lane roads worsened evacuation during the 2023 Lahaina wildfire.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Last action Apr 14, 2025

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HR43 → HR43_HD1 · 3 edits

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The bill text was reformatted from a multi-page document with page headers and footers into a single continuous text block. The substantive legislative content, including all WHEREAS clauses, RESOLVED clauses, and the bill number (HR 43/H.D. 1), remains unchanged. This appears to be a technical formatting update rather than a policy modification.

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Removed page headers, footers, and document metadata (such as timestamps and page numbers) that were interspersed throughout the original text.

Consolidated the document into a single continuous text flow, removing line breaks and formatting artifacts from the original multi-page layout.

Added a report title at the end of the document: 'Emergency Preparedness; Waiʻanae Coast; Access Road'.

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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 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Souza voting no (1) and none excused (0).

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2103), recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Hashem, Lamosao, Morikawa, Woodson, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Iwamoto, Souza; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Poepoe.

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The recommendation was not adopted. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Iwamoto, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; 5 Noes: Representative(s) Belatti, Hashem, Lamosao, Morikawa, Woodson; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Poepoe.

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on PBS as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Souza voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Hussey, Muraoka, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1668) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to PBS.

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to TRN, PBS, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

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