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,
____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair |
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