STAND. COM. REP. 391

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1313

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1313 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to limit increases in wharfage fees by:

(1) Requiring that wharfage fees be changed and published by the Department of Transportation in December of each year only by the percentage, if any, by which the consumer price index (CPI) for that calendar year exceeds the consumer price index for the prior calendar year; and

(2) Providing that the CPI for any calendar year is the average of the CPI for all urban consumers published by the United States Department of Labor, as of the close of the twelve-month period ending on August 31st of each calendar year.

Your Committee believes that this bill has merit and warrants further discussion.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1313 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair