HB 1359 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO FLOOD MITIGATION.

Summary

Establishes a grant program for drainage system maintenance and flood mitigation measures in residential areas, to be administered by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2026

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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What changed between versions

HB1359 → HB1359_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a standard draft to a House Draft version, adding metadata headers and a specific funding line item. The core legislative text regarding the grant program for flood mitigation and drainage systems remains substantively unchanged, though minor formatting inconsistencies in the original draft were corrected.

Scope change

The scope of the bill remains focused on establishing a grant program for residential flood mitigation and drainage system improvements, with no changes to the target audience or geographic applicability.

TECHNICAL

Added metadata headers including bill number (HB1359 HD1), author name (Patrick Comiso), and document revision history.

Corrected minor formatting inconsistencies and spacing errors present in the original draft text.

Added a summary description and report title at the end of the document for informational purposes.

FISCAL

Inserted a specific line item in Section 3 appropriating funds from the general revenues for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to implement the grant program.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 2, 2026

Committee

Re-Referred to WLA, WAM.

upper

Mar 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on WTL has scheduled a public hearing on 03-14-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to WTL, WAM.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 167).

upper

Feb 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Iwamoto voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Hussey, Ward.

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 718) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Ichiyama, Morikawa; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Belatti, Shimizu, Souza; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Iwamoto; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Poepoe, Woodson.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to WAL, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors