Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

Legislative Proposal

Description

Senate Bills

House Bills

    HHL-01(25) Relating to Independent Legal Counsel

  This proposal allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel. Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the State.

  HHL-02(25) Relating to the Commission on Water Resource Management

  This proposal adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson’s designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Increases number of commission members from seven to eight, with only five of eight required to have substantial experience in water resource management.

HHL-03(25) Relating to Housing

This proposal exempts any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes.

  HHL-04(25) Relating to Historic Preservation Reviews

This proposal allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii register of historic places or the national register of historic places.

      HHL-05(25) Relating to School Impact Fees

This proposal exempts housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.

  HHL-06(25) Relating to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation

This proposal adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson’s designee to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

HHL-07(25) Relating to the Hawaii Community Development Authority

This proposal adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson’s designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

  HHL-08(25) Relating to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act

This proposal confirms that Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, shall take effect on either the date of the Secretary of the Interior’s notification letter to the Congressional Committee Chairpersons that this Act meets none of the criteria in title 43 Code of Federal Regulations section 48.20, or on the date that the United States Congress approval becomes law.

HHL-09(25) Relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

This proposal appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the investigation, exploration, and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands.

HHL-10(25) Relating to County User Fees

This proposal exempts the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from county user fees, in the amount of $100,000 aggregate per year, and ensures county services to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for Hawaiian Home Lands.

    HHL-11(25) Relating to Sewer Transmission Lines

This proposal requires that all county sewer transmission lines on Hawaiian Home Lands in compliance or brought into compliance by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, are licensed or dedicated to the respective county within sixty days after the receipt by the appropriate county agency of a completed application for maintenance request.

    HHL-15(25) Relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

This proposal allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to utilize the dwelling unit revolving fund as collateral when acting as an eligible borrower for a loan guaranteed under section 184A of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, as amended, and appropriates funds for this purpose.