STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2772

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2911
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2911 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOATING SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to exempt debt service of the
boating special fund from the central services fee.

     Your Committee finds that the boating special fund was not
assessed a central services fee when it was under the
administration of the Harbors Division of the Department of
Transportation.  But after the fund's transfer to the Department
of Land and Natural Resources, the central services five per cent
surcharge was initiated.

     This bill would reinstitute the same central services fee
policy for the boating special fund that was in place before the
fund's transfer.  The bill exempts the amount of the boating
special fund's debt service from consideration in determining the
central services fee.  Your Committee finds that the Division of
Boating and Ocean Recreation which operates solely from boating
fund revenues will be better able to provide services and improve
facilities for the boating public.


 
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     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 S.B. No.
2911 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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