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SB1099HIEngrossed 2026 Regular Session

Relating To Important Agricultural Lands.

Last status update Mar 4, 2025

What this measure contains

Authorizes the Land Use Commission to designate county or state lands as important agricultural lands, and adopt maps for the designated lands, in counties that fail to identify and recommend important agricultural lands by 12/31/2027. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

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Legislative path

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  1. Introduced
  2. HD1by WAL

Companion measure: SB1099. A companion follows its own path; its votes are not combined with this one.

Decision stages

  1. Water and Land (WTL) on the introduced draft: Passed, unamended

    5 aye · 0 no · 0 excused · Source roll call

  2. Judiciary (JDC) on the introduced draft: Passed, unamended

    4 aye · 0 no · 1 excused · Source roll call

  3. Senate third reading on the introduced draft: Passed

    25 aye · 0 no · 0 excused

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

    7 aye · 2 aye with reservations · 0 no · 1 excused

  5. House second reading on HD1: Passed

    46 aye · 1 aye with reservations · 0 no · 4 excused

  6. House AGR committee on HD1: Passed, unamended

    5 aye · 0 no · 1 excused

  7. House report adoption on HD1: Report adopted

    46 aye · 0 no · 5 excused

  8. House JHA committee on HD1: Passed, unamended

    9 aye · 1 no · 1 excused

  9. House third reading on HD1: Passed

    46 aye · 3 no · 1 excused

Senate members along the path

16 more Senate members only counted as floor ayes

House members along the path

25 more House members only counted as floor ayes

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

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Legislative history

  1. Introduced.

  2. Passed First Reading.

  3. Referred to WTL, JDC.

  4. The committee(s) on WTL has scheduled a public hearing on 02-05-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

  5. The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

  6. Reported from WTL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 367) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and referral to JDC.

  7. Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDC.

  8. The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-21-25 10:20AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.

  9. The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard.

  10. Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 956) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.

  11. One Day Notice 03-04-25.

  12. Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House.

  13. Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 259).

  14. Pass First Reading

  15. Referred to WAL, AGR, JHA, referral sheet 19

  16. Bill scheduled to be heard by WAL on Tuesday, 03-11-25 9:00AM in House conference room 411 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  17. 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, Morikawa, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Iwamoto, Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson.

  18. Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1264) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to AGR.

  19. Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on AGR with Representative(s) Pierick voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Holt, Iwamoto, Ward excused (4).

  20. Bill scheduled to be heard by AGR on Wednesday, 03-19-25 9:30AM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  21. 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.

  22. Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1409), recommending referral to JHA.

  23. Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Garrett, Kapela, Kitagawa, Ward excused (5).

  24. Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Thursday, 03-27-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.

  25. The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Shimizu; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

  26. Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2027), recommending passage on Third Reading.

  27. Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Iwamoto, Pierick, Shimizu voting no (3) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). Transmitted to Senate.

  28. Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 671).

  29. Senate disagrees with House amendments.

  30. Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 779).

  31. Senate Conferees Appointed: Inouye Chair; Gabbard Co-Chair; Elefante, DeCorte.

  32. Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 789).

  33. Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

  34. Senate Conferee(s) discharged.

  35. Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 409).

  36. Re-Referred to WLA, JDC.

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