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Bill	RELATING TO WASTE MANAGEMENT.	Prohibits any waste or disposal facility from being located in a conservation district except in emergency circumstances to mitigate significant risks to public safety and health. Requires no less than a one-half mile buffer zone around residences, schools, and hospitals for the construction, modification, or expansion of a waste or disposal facility. Specifies that "waste or disposal facility" excludes individual, state certified, non-industrial redemption centers. (HD2)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2020 Regular Session	SB 2386	Hawaii SB 2386 (2020 Regular Session)	bill	Waste Management Landfills Buffer Zones Conservation Districts	enacted	Fevella K. KAHELE Kanuha Kidani L. Thielen Riviere Ruderman Shimabukuro	6	35	6	2020-01-17	2020-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/8738f868-bd46-4193-9277-95b15a51dc0a	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2386&year=2020	cc97cb3a68f051cc97618beefb52fb685aef351ac455d209cbcf6657e8e69021	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 2386 (2020 Regular Session) — RELATING TO WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Prohibits any waste or disposal facility from being located in a conservation district except in emergency circumstances to mitigate significant risks to public safety and health. Requires no less than a one-half mile buffer zone around residences, schools, and hospitals for the construction, modification, or expansion of a waste or disposal facility. Specifies that "waste or disposal facility" excludes individual, state certified, non-industrial redemption centers. (HD2)

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. SB2386 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB2386_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB2386_HD2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB2386_SD1 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB2386_SD1_PROPOSED (committee substitute) — source
6. SB2386_SD2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• The committees on WLH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fevella — primary (person)
• K. KAHELE — primary (person)
• Kanuha — primary (person)
• Kidani — primary (person)
• L. Thielen — primary (person)
• Riviere — primary (person)
• Ruderman — primary (person)
• Shimabukuro — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-01-17 Introduced. introduction
• 2020-01-21 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2020-01-23 Referred to WTL/AEN, JDC. referral-committee
• 2020-02-04 The committee(s) on WTL/AEN has scheduled a public hearing on 02-07-20 1:35PM in conference room 224.
• 2020-02-07 The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, K. Rhoads, L. Thielen, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Ruderman. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-07 The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Kahele, Riviere, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keith-Agaran, Nishihara. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-13 Reported from WTL/AEN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2649) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC.
• 2020-02-13 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC.
• 2020-02-24 The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-27-20 10:30AM in conference room 016.
• 2020-02-27 The committee(s) on JDC deferred the measure until 02-28-20 9:31AM in conference room 016.
• 2020-02-28 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Rhoads, J.Keohokalole, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard, Fevella. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3277) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
• 2020-02-28 48 Hrs. Notice 03-03-20.
• 2020-03-03 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2020-03-03 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 224) in amended form (SD 2). introduction
• 2020-03-05 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2020-03-09 Referred to WLH/EEP, FIN, referral sheet 36 referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Bill scheduled to be heard by WLH/EEP on Friday, 03-13-20 10:30AM in House conference room 325.
• 2020-03-13 The committees on WLH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamane, Todd, Har, Lowen, Tarnas, Wildberger; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Ward; and Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-13 The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Wildberger, Har, Tarnas, Todd, Yamane; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Thielen. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-05-12 Reported from WLH/EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1190-20) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
• 2020-05-12 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Ward voting no (1) and Representative(s) Thielen excused (1). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2020-06-26 Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Monday, 06-29-20 2:00PM in House conference room 329.
• 2020-06-29 The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Eli, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, B. Kobayashi, Nakamura, Nishimoto, Todd, Wildberger, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Matayoshi. committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-07-02 Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1273-20) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2020-07-02 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Monday, 07-06-20.
• 2020-07-06 Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Nakamura voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) D. Kobayashi, Kong, Matsumoto, Okimoto, Thielen, Ward voting no (6) and none excused (0). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2020-07-06 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 398). introduction
• 2020-07-08 Senate agrees with House amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Reading on 07-10-20.
• 2020-07-08 One Day Notice 07-10-20.
• 2020-07-10 Passed Final Reading. Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none . 1 No(es): Senator(s) Kim. 0 Excused: none.
• 2020-07-10 Received notice of Senate agreement and Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 632).
• 2020-07-13 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2020-09-15 Act 073, 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). executive-signature
• 2020-09-15 Act 073, on 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8738f868-bd46-4193-9277-95b15a51dc0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).