Bill
SB 1459
SB 1459 spans three states: Hawaii funds homeless-encampment cleanups; Illinois tightens tobacco escrow enforcement; Arizona returns historic properties to Yuma.
Summary — SB 1459 (multiple, jurisdiction-specific bills sharing the same bill number)
Note: The file you supplied contains three distinct bills, each labeled “SB 1459” but from different states and addressing different subjects (Hawaii, Illinois, and Arizona). Summaries for each follow.
1) Hawaii — SB 1459 / SB1459 SD1 (DLNR homeless-encampment clean-ups; appropriation)
- Purpose / intent: Provide dedicated state funding to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to pay for clean-up of homeless encampments on public trust lands.
- Key provisions:
- Legislative findings describe significant clean-up costs on DLNR-managed lands (examples: Diamond Head, Hamakua/Kawainui marshes, Maui/Hawaii/Kauai sites). FY 2024–25 clean-up cost estimated at ~$3,000,000. A single large Kalihi Stream clean-up in 2024 cost ~ $1,000,000.
- SECTION 2 (introduced version): Appropriates $2,500,000 from general revenues for FY 2025–26 and $2,500,000 for FY 2026–27, to be expended by DLNR.
- SECTION 3: Beginning with the 2027–2029 biennium, DLNR must include a line-item in its budget requests to cover homeless-encampment clean-up costs on its lands.
- SECTION 4 (introduced): Effective July 1, 2025. (SD1 contains variant language: appropriation amount left blank and an effective date noted as January 1, 2050.)
- Who is affected: DLNR (primary fiscal recipient), State general fund, communities adjacent to DLNR lands, visitors and users of public trust lands, and individuals experiencing homelessness (indirectly).
- Procedural/timeline notes: Multiple committee referrals and readings listed (WTL/HHS, WAM) and hearings in early 2025. SD1 reflects amendment(s) including changes to appropriation language and effective date.
2) Illinois — SB1459 (Tobacco Products Manufacturers’ Escrow Enforcement Act & Tobacco Product Manufacturers’ Escrow Act)
- Purpose / intent: Strengthen enforcement of escrow and reporting obligations for tobacco product manufacturers and their distributors; provide the State stronger remedies for noncompliance.
- Key provisions:
- Amends the Tobacco Products Manufacturers’ Escrow Enforcement Act of 2003 to permit the Attorney General (AG), upon a distributor’s failure to submit required information (per subsection (a) or (d) of Section 25), to send a notice of violation giving 10 days to cure. If not cured, AG notifies the Director of Revenue, who must revoke the distributor’s license.
- Confirms existing remedies: revocation/suspension of distributor licenses, seizure/forfeiture and destruction of noncompliant cigarettes, injunctions, recovery of state costs and attorneys’ fees, and civil penalties (including statutory maximums such as up to greater of 500% of retail value or $5,000 per violation in some contexts).
- Amends the Tobacco Product Manufacturers’ Escrow Act to allow a tobacco product manufacturer that elects to place funds into escrow to make an irrevocable assignment of its interest in those funds for the benefit of the State.
- Who is affected: Tobacco manufacturers, distributors, retailers, Director of Revenue, Attorney General, and State enforcement authorities.
- Procedural/timeline notes: Introduced in Illinois General Assembly 104th (filed 1/31/2025 by Sen. Robert F. Martwick). Text includes statutory cross-references to Illinois cigarette and tobacco tax law.
3) Arizona — SB 1459 (Yuma property; Arizona Historical Society)
- Purpose / intent: Amend a 2024 conveyance law to clarify/expand return of property and artifacts to the City of Yuma.
- Key provisions:
- Directs the Arizona Historical Society to convey specific properties to the City of Yuma (Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens; Jack Mellon House at 240 S. Madison; the Molina Block at 272 Madison).
- Deadlines: President of Arizona Historical Society to deliver properly signed and recorded deed/patent within 15 days after the act’s effective date (text cites SEPTEMBER 14, 2024).
- Uses/conditions: Transferred land/buildings must be used for public purposes in perpetuity; may not be sold/exchanged.
- Adds mandate that documents, items, and other personal property that were ever deeded to or donated to Yuma County, the Yuma County Historical Society, or the Arizona Historical Society—and that meet listed criteria (benefited Yuma County, were made in Yuma County, or have significance to Yuma history)—are the property of the City of Yuma and must be returned. Requires inventorying such items.
- Who is affected: City of Yuma, Arizona Historical Society, Yuma County Historical Society, Yuma County, and owners/custodians of historical items.
- Procedural/timeline notes: Text references amendment to Laws 2024, chapter 14, section 1.
Cross-references and sponsors
- Sponsors shown across documents include: Brian Fernandez (Arizona), Mike Porfirio (co-sponsor listed), Robert F. Martwick (Illinois), and reference to Kouchi (possibly Hawaii). HB 1140 is noted as a companion (context suggests Hawaii pairing).
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