STAND. COM. REP. 3231

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1560

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1560, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF VESSELS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the owner of a vessel the opportunity for an administrative hearing to contest the basis for taking custody of the vessel prior to its disposition.

In addition, this measure raises the value of vessels impounded by the Department of Land and Natural Resources that must be sold by public auction.

Your Committee finds that administrative hearings are available to owners or operators of vessels impounded for unauthorized mooring, however, there is no such provision for owners of abandoned or derelict vessels.

Your Committee further finds that proceeds from auctions of vessels in the $5,000 or less value range rarely cover the administrative costs of the auction or the operational costs of vessel impoundment, transportation, and storage. This measure allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to recoup these additional costs from the raised values.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes, and by updating the effective date from July 1, 2003, to July 1, 2004.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1560, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1560, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair