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HB915HIIntroduced 2026 Regular Session

Relating To Water Use.

Last status update Jan 23, 2025

What this measure contains

Authorizes the Board of Agriculture to investigate and survey the availability of nonpotable water. Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management, as a condition for issuing permits, to require the use of dual line water supply systems in new residential and mixed-use developments located in designated water management areas. Authorizes those residential and mixed-use developments to be included in irrigation projects, as defined in chapter 167, HRS. Requires the Department of Health, Board of Agriculture, and counties to update their rules, ordinances, to allow dual line water supply systems in residential and mixed-use developments. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

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Related measures

  • SB1210— Same As
  • HB915— Carry Over

Related measures may contain different language or follow different histories.

How this measure moved

Legislative path

Each stage below is a recorded decision from the official measure history, attached to the draft it considered. A member's row follows their votes from the first draft to the latest, and a highlighted vote marks where it changed. Committee and conference votes list every member by name. Floor votes list only exceptions; members serving that day who aren't named are shown as ayes in a dashed outline.

  1. Introduced
  2. HD1by WAL

Companion measures: SB1210, HB915. A companion follows its own path; its votes are not combined with this one.

Decision stages

  1. House WAL committee on the introduced draft: Passed, with amendments, reported as HD1

    8 aye · 1 aye with reservations · 0 no · 1 excused

  2. House second reading on HD1: Passed

    47 aye · 1 aye with reservations · 0 no · 3 excused

  3. House AGR committee on HD1: Passed, unamended

    5 aye · 0 no · 1 excused

  4. House report adoption on HD1: Report adopted

    43 aye · 3 aye with reservations · 1 no · 4 excused

House members along the path

House members' votes at each stage of HB915
MemberWAL
Introduced		Second reading
HD1		AGR
HD1		Report adoption
HD1		Change along the path
Chris MuraokaHD-045AyeNoAye → No at House report adoption (HD1)
Della au BelattiHD-026AyeAyeAye
Elle CochranHD-014ExcusedExcused
Diamond GarciaHD-042AyeAye*Added reservations at House report adoption (HD1)
Mark HashemHD-019AyeAyeAye
Linda IchiyamaHD-031AyeAyeAye
Kim IwamotoHD-025AyeAyeAye
Kirstin KahaloaHD-006AyeAyeAye
Sam KongHD-033ExcusedAye
Matthias KuschHD-001AyeAyeAye
Rachele Fernandez LamosaoSD-019AyeAyeAye
Nicole LowenHD-007AyeAyeAye
Scot MatayoshiHD-049AyeExcused
Daynette MorikawaHD-017AyeAyeAye
Amy PerrusoHD-046AyeAyeAye
Elijah PierickHD-039AyeAye*Added reservations at House report adoption (HD1)
Mahina PoepoeHD-013AyeAyeExcused
Sean QuinlanHD-047AyeAyeAye
Garner ShimizuHD-032Aye*Aye*Aye*
Kanani SouzaHD-043AyeAyeAye
Gene WardHD-018ExcusedExcusedExcused
Justin WoodsonHD-009ExcusedAyeAye
29 more House members only counted as floor ayes
MemberWAL
Introduced		Second reading
HD1		AGR
HD1		Report adoption
HD1		Change along the path
David AlcosHD-041AyeAye
Terez AmatoHD-011AyeAye
Cory ChunHD-035AyeAye
Luke EvslinHD-016AyeAye
Andrew GarrettHD-022AyeAye
Tina GrandinettiHD-020AyeAye
Daniel HoltHD-028AyeAye
Ikaika HusseyHD-029AyeAye
Greggor IlaganHD-004AyeAye
Jeanne KapelaHD-005AyeAye
Sue Keohokapu-Lee LoyHD-002AyeAye
Darius KilaHD-044AyeAye
Lisa KitagawaHD-048AyeAye
Trish La ChicaHD-037AyeAye
Mike LeeHD-050AyeAye
Lisa MartenHD-051AyeAye
Lauren MatsumotoHD-038AyeAye
Tyson MiyakeHD-010AyeAye
Nadine NakamuraHD-015AyeAye
Ikaika OldsHD-023AyeAye
Julie Reyes OdaHD-040AyeAye
Jackson SayamaHD-021AyeAye
Gregg TakayamaHD-034AyeAye
Jenna TakenouchiHD-027AyeAye
Adrian TamHD-024AyeAye
David TarnasHD-008AyeAye
Shirley Ann TemploHD-030AyeAye
Chris ToddHD-003AyeAye
Kyle YamashitaHD-012AyeAye

Aye named · Aye* with reservations · Aye floor vote, not named as an exception · No · Excused · Changed reversed from the previous vote

Names are matched to legislators only when exactly one person fits; every printed name on this measure was matched. A missing vote means no record was found for that member at that stage, not a no vote. Committee codes follow the Legislature's abbreviations.Official measure history ↗

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Legislative history

  1. Pending introduction.

  2. Introduced and Pass First Reading.

  3. Referred to WAL/HSG, AGR, JHA, referral sheet 3

  4. Re-referred to WAL, AGR, JHA, referral sheet 4

  5. Bill scheduled to be heard by WAL on Thursday, 01-30-25 9:00AM in House conference room 411 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  6. The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson.

  7. Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 124) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to AGR.

  8. Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on AGR with Representative(s) Shimizu voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kong, Ward excused (3).

  9. Bill scheduled to be heard by AGR on Wednesday, 02-12-25 9:30AM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  10. The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.

  11. Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 647), recommending referral to JHA.

  12. Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA with Representative(s) Garcia, Pierick, Shimizu voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Muraoka voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

  13. Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Thursday, 02-20-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  14. The committee(s) on JHA recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.

  15. Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

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