Hawaii's legislature is considering a bill response to the Hawaii Supreme Court's rail decision holding that before construction can proceed an AIS study must be conducted for the entirety of a project even when (as in the case of rail), the construction is planned to be done in phases.
Reports of this bill imply that this would effect some kind of revolution in the way Hawaii projects are constructed, when in fact, up until the Supreme Court's decision, the law was silent on this issue and construction has been allowed with the understanding that AIS studies would be supplemented as construction necessitated. As of April 23, 2013, the bill is still proceeding, despite heated discussion on both sides of the issue.
