2027 Legislative Session Priorities

Carbon Cashback Hawai‘i has broadened its advocacy efforts beyond carbon cashback to include other measures that reduce the cost of our energy transition and lead us toward energy independence.

Here are our 2027 legislative session priorities:

Carbon Cashback (flyer)

Put a fee on fossil fuel pollution and use funds for lower-carbon infrastructure and dividends

Re-establish the agricultural development and food security special fund

Buildings and infrastructure

Extend and strengthen energy efficiency codes and standards

Balcony Solar (flyer) (Honolulu Star-Advertiser Island Voices)

These bills allow apartment dwellers and renters to install small, affordable plug-in solar electricity systems without permits or hassle

Electricity Generation

Update the HRS §269-91 to include:  lifecycle carbon intensity requirements for “renewable energy sources,” specifically (7) biomass and (8) biofuels, and (9) hydrogen produced from renewable energy. (Also see JSEP #13 for all fuels, and other ideas #37)"

Ground Transportation

Establish incentives for superusers to switch to EVs (see HDOT #43-46 (preferential registration, sales tax exemption, other ideas) and other ideas #36 (extend to low-income people)

Healthy Soils Program

These bills establishe and fund a program that supports farmers with tools and knowledge for soil practices that capture carbon