STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1339

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1412

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1412, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to accommodate the mooring of native Hawaiian canoes that are owned or leased by a nonprofit corporation, association, organization, or other duly chartered entity and operated for educational purposes.

 

     This measure also requires any owner of a native Hawaiian canoe accommodated pursuant to this measure to submit to the Department of Land and Natural Resources an annual report describing the educational activities conducted during the previous year.

 

     Your Committee finds that, for thousands of years, native Hawaiians traveled the Pacific Ocean in voyaging canoes.  The experience of creating the canoe itself was of an educational, social, and spiritual character.  Your Committee believes that, by accommodating educational native Hawaiian canoes in small boat harbors, this measure will provide enhanced opportunities to educate the public about the history and significance of native Hawaiian canoes.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that mooring space shall be provided for native Hawaiian canoes that are used for educational purposes;

 

     (2)  Providing that the owner or lessee, rather than merely the owner, of an accommodated native Hawaiian canoe shall submit the annual report to the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the annual report shall describe how the educational activities that were conducted during the previous year used, involved, or focused on the native Hawaiian canoe.

 

     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. 1412, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1412, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair