STAND. COM. REP. NO. 930

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1891

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1891, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOATING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the fee requirements for commercial use vessels that are moored in the State's small boat harbors.

The measure also clarifies which fees and penalties are to be deposited to the boating special fund.

Your Committee understands that the proposed fee adjustment is required to enable the Boating Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to meet small harbor needs driven by the rapidly growing level of boating activity.

Your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying the formula for calculating the commercial use vessel fee. Accordingly, the fee shall be three per cent of gross revenues derived from the use of the vessel or two times the moorage fee assessed for a recreational vessel of the same size, whichever is greater. Technical nonsubstantive amendments have also been made for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 1891, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1891, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair