THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator Russell E. Ruderman, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Glenn Wakai, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, February 11, 2019

TIME:

2:00 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 224

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 834

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY.

Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements.  Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar right to record that right by filing a declaration with the county clerk.  Permits the governing body of a county to require, by ordinance, the trimming of vegetation that blocks solar radiation from solar energy devices.  Authorizes the ordinance to include a designation for the cost of trimming.

 

AEN/PSM, WAM

SB 381

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Requires the counties to adopt supplemental rules on condominium property regimes, including those that involve agricultural lands.

 

PSM/AEN, CPH

SB 893

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RECYCLING.

Prohibits counties from rejecting number 1 and 2 plastic bottles presented for recycling solely because the bottles are accompanied by or adjoined to nonrecyclable bottle caps.  Requires and appropriates funds for the counties to separate and appropriately dispose of such nonrecyclable bottle caps.  Adds definition of "PP", or polypropylene plastic material, into integrated solid waste management law.  Requires counties to include feasibility assessment of recycling PP materials.

 

PSM/AEN, WAM

SB 940

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS.

Grants county agencies the implicit right to enter property to investigate agricultural buildings and structures for violations of, and compliance with, building permit and code exemption qualifications.

 

PSM/AEN, JDC

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair

 

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Senator Mike Gabbard

Chair