HB 1771 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO CARBON OFFSETS.

Summary

Requires the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2026 Last action Feb 10, 2026

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HB1771 → HB1771_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to change its effective date from immediate approval to July 1, 3000, and updated internal metadata including author names and version numbers. The core policy regarding carbon offset purchases for air travel remains substantively unchanged, though minor formatting adjustments were made to the statutory text.

Scope change

No change to the scope or applicability of the bill; the law continues to apply to air travel to or from airports in the State of Hawaii.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000', making the law retroactively future-dated.

TECHNICAL

Metadata fields were updated, including the bill author name (from Gregory LaMontagne to Chris Kobayashi) and version control numbers.

Minor formatting adjustments were made to the statutory text, including the addition of a period at the end of a sentence and the removal of a blank line.

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Committee

Feb 9, 2026

Committee

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 87-26) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to EEP.

lower

Feb 5, 2026

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Miyake, Cochran, Evslin, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Pierick.

lower

Jan 26, 2026

Committee

Referred to TRN, EEP, FIN, referral sheet 1

lower

Jan 22, 2026

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 21, 2026

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors