STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1147

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1089
                                     S.D. 1
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources, to
which was referred S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL MARINE LICENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify statutory provisions
relating to the issuance of commercial marine licenses by:

     (1)  Providing the Department of Land and Natural Resources
          (DLNR) with the option of requiring catch reports of
          only certain licensees;

     (2)  Authorizing DLNR to obtain other types of information
          from commercial marine licensees, thereby ensuring the
          gathering of more appropriate and useful information;
          and

     (3)  Removing unnecessary or obsolete language from Chapter
          189 (Commercial Fishing), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     DLNR testified in support of this bill. 

     Your Committee finds that this bill will provide DLNR with
greater flexibility in making critical changes to its
administrative rules regarding commercial marine licenses and the
associated reporting requirements.


 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Ocean Recreation
                                   and Marine Resources,



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                                   Roy M. Takumi, Chair