Bills

HB 510: CWRM; WATER SHORTAGE AND EMERGENCY; WATER SHORTAGE DECLARATION; NOTICE

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: House
  • Latest Version Date: 2025-04-03

Current Status:

In Progress

(2025-12-08: Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.)

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First Chamber

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Second Chamber

Final Decking

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Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.  Limits the duration of a water shortage declaration to ninety days.  Limits water usage restrictions imposed on a permittee or owner and operator to twenty per cent of the permittee's or owner and operator's last reported monthly use.  Requires CWRM to maintain a list of names and postal or email addresses of persons who request notification of a water shortage declaration and send them a copy of a notice of a water shortage declaration whenever water shortage is declared.  Effective 7/1/2040.  (SD2)

Discussed in Hearing

Senate Standing Committee on Water and Land9MIN
Mar 14, 2025

Senate Standing Committee on Water and Land

House Floor1MIN
Mar 4, 2025

House Floor

House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs6MIN
Feb 27, 2025

House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

House Standing Committee on Water & Land9MIN
Feb 6, 2025

House Standing Committee on Water & Land

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