HB 2243 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO ELECTRIC ENERGY.

Summary

Requires all electric utilities to provide transparent customer bill impact analyses that are accessible to the public in an electronic format reasonably usable by ratepayers. Establishes requirements for bill impact analyses. Requires electric utilities to submit annual reports to the Public Utilities Commission. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 26, 2026 Last action Feb 18, 2026

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What changed between versions

HB2243 → HB2243_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill revision primarily updates administrative metadata, such as author names and dates, while making minor stylistic improvements to the text. The most significant substantive change is the effective date, which was moved from immediate approval to July 1, 3000, likely indicating a placeholder for future legislation.

Scope change

The scope of the bill's applicability remains unchanged; it continues to govern electric utilities and bill impact analysis transparency.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000'.

TECHNICAL

Minor formatting adjustments were made to the statutory text, including reorganizing a list of requirements into lettered sub-points (A) and (B) and adjusting punctuation.

Administrative metadata was updated, including changing the author name from Margaret McGary to Aaron Supple and updating various internal version numbers and timestamps.

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Committee

Feb 18, 2026

Committee

Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 446-26) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.

lower

Feb 17, 2026

Lower · Passed

The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Chun, Kahaloa, Kusch, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan.

lower

Jan 30, 2026

Committee

Referred to EEP, CPC, referral sheet 5

lower

Jan 28, 2026

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 26, 2026

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

11 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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In committee

Feb 18, 2026

Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).

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Passage Likelihood 46%

46% medium confidence

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