SB 412 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Summary

Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to assess the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state department facility. Requires state departments to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the reports no later than five years from the issue date of the reports. Gives priority for the required energy efficiency measures to first responder facilities. (SD1)

Issues: ✓ Energy

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Last action Feb 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

SB412 → SB412_SD1 · 6 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a multi-page document into a single version with metadata headers. The core legislative text remains substantively unchanged, maintaining the same requirements for state departments to assess renewable energy feasibility and install systems within five years, with priority given to first responder facilities.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; only formatting and metadata structure were altered.

TECHNICAL

Removed multi-page document structure and replaced with single-page metadata headers including document versioning and timestamps.

Changed Section 1 language from 'Reguire' to 'Require' and 'Reguire' to 'Require' in Section 2.

REQUIREMENT

Modified Section 2(a) to assign the assessment responsibility to the 'Hawaii State energy office' rather than requiring all state departments to assess independently.

Added new subsection (b) clarifying that departments must implement systems within five years of report submission, with tax credit and depreciation restrictions.

Added new subsection (c) explicitly prioritizing first responder facilities for energy efficiency measures.

DEFINITION

Added new subsection (d) defining key terms including 'distributed energy resource system', 'energy efficiency measure', 'facility', and 'first responder facility'.

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Committee

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Reported from EIG/GVO (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 61) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Jan 30, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Gabbard, Moriwaki, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.

upper

Jan 30, 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, DeCoite; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Fevella.

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EIG/GVO has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to EIG/GVO, WAM.

upper

Jan 15, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and passed First Reading.

upper

Jan 14, 2025

Introduced

Pending Introduction.

upper

4 primary · 2 co-sponsors