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SB161HIIntroduced 2026 Regular Session

Relating To County Permitting And Inspection.

Last status update Jan 15, 2025

What this measure contains

Allows state projects to be exempt from county building permit requirements under certain conditions. Requires all exempted state projects to be included in a report that is regularly made available to the public. Allows state agencies that undertake projects to be dedicated to a county to prepare programmatic or project-specific agreements that establish requirements and standards for review and acceptance if the agency wants the project to be exempted. Allows state agencies that want to be exempted from county permitting processes to establish a cooperative working group. Requires cooperative working groups to submit an interim report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2026. Effective 5/13/2040. (SD1)

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Related measures

  • HB761— Same As
  • SB161— 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. SD1by GVO

Companion measures: HB761, SB161. A companion follows its own path; its votes are not combined with this one.

Decision stages

  1. Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs (EIG) on the introduced draft: Passed, with amendments, reported as SD1

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

  2. Government Operations (GVO) on the introduced draft: Passed, with amendments, reported as SD1

    3 aye · 0 no · 2 excused · Source roll call

Senate members along the path

Senate members' votes at each stage of SB161
MemberEIG
Introduced		GVO
Introduced		Change along the path
Stanley ChangSD-009Aye
Lynn DecoiteSD-007Aye
Kurt FevellaSD-020AyeAye
Mike GabbardSD-021Excused
Angus McKelveySD-006Aye
Sharon MoriwakiSD-012Aye
Tim RichardsSD-004Aye
Joy San BuenaventuraSD-002Excused
Glenn WakaiSD-015Aye

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 passed First Reading.

  3. Referred to EIG/GVO, WAM.

  4. The committee(s) on EIG/GVO has scheduled a public hearing on 01-30-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

  5. The committee(s) on EIG deferred the measure until 02-04-25 3:00PM; CR 016.

  6. The committee(s) on GVO deferred the measure until 02-04-25 3:00PM; CR 225.

  7. The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Chang, DeCoite, Richards, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

  8. The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Moriwaki, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard, San Buenaventura.

  9. Reported from EIG/GVO (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 220) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

  10. Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

  11. Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

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