HR 58 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE PLACEMENT OF AN OFFICE OF RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY.

HR 58 is a House Resolution requesting the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to form a working group to evaluate where to place a new Office of Resilience and Recovery. The working group must include agency leaders (like the Emergency Management Administrator, Fire Marshal, and local emergency directors) and legislators, and will determine the best department for the office while clarifying its relationship with the existing Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. The group must submit recommendations by November 30, 2025, focusing on administrative placement rather than creating the office itself. This resolution responds to the Maui wildfires and a Climate Advisory Team recommendation, but does not establish the office or change existing laws.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

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Mar 2025

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Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Last action Mar 28, 2025

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MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a House Resolution to a House Document (HD1) with significant changes to the working group composition. The most substantive change is the replacement of individual agency directors with their respective County Mayors (Honolulu, Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai) as working group members, and the increase of legislative representation from one to two members per chamber. These changes broaden the working group's geographic and political representation to ensure all county perspectives are included in the resilience planning process.

Scope change

The working group's membership scope was expanded to include all four county mayors instead of just emergency management administrators, and legislative representation was doubled to ensure balanced input from both chambers of the legislature.

REQUIREMENT

Working group membership was changed from agency directors (Emergency Management, Civil Defense, etc.) to County Mayors for Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai counties, plus the Honolulu Mayor, replacing the previous structure that included county emergency management administrators.

Legislative representation in the working group was increased from one member per chamber to two members per chamber (Senate and House), doubling the legislative oversight component.

The working group's membership composition was simplified by removing specific emergency management agency administrators (Maui, Hawaii County, Kauai) and replacing them with their respective County Mayors.

TECHNICAL

The document was reformatted from a House Resolution to a House Document (HD1) with updated metadata and formatting, though the substantive policy content regarding the working group's purpose remained consistent.

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Committee

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Hussey, Muraoka, Ward excused (4).

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1686) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to WAL, FIN, referral sheet 22

lower

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Offered

lower

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