SB 520 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO WASTEWATER SYSTEMS.

Summary

Requires the Department of Health to amend its administrative rules to: (1) Authorize not more than five dwellings and dwelling units connected to a single individual wastewater system; and (2) Provide that not more than five bedrooms may be connected to a single individual wastewater system. (SD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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What changed between versions

SB520 → SB520_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a standard Senate bill to a Senate Draft 1 version with updated metadata and formatting. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, requiring the Department of Health to amend administrative rules to limit individual wastewater systems to five dwelling units or dwellings, with an additional provision that the total number of bedrooms connected to one system cannot exceed five. The language was slightly refined from 'dwelling units' to include 'dwellings' and 'bedrooms' for clarity.

Scope change

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

TECHNICAL

Updated bill metadata including version number (SD1), dates, and formatting structure from original Senate bill format.

Reformatted bill header, section numbering, and removed draft-specific markup symbols.

REQUIREMENT

Clarified the limitation on wastewater systems to specify both 'dwellings and dwelling units' and added explicit bedroom count limitation of five bedrooms total.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from HHS/AEN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 576) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Feb 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

upper

Feb 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Feb 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS/AEN has scheduled a public hearing on 02-07-25 2:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to HHS/AEN, WAM.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

3 primary · 0 co-sponsors