STAND. COM. REP. NO. 584

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1371

       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 S.B. No. 1371, 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 provide mooring space in small boat harbors for Native Hawaiian canoes used for nonprofit educational purposes.

 

     More specifically, this measure requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to accommodate, in all state small boat harbors, the mooring of Native Hawaiian canoes owned or leased by a nonprofit entity and operated for educational purposes.  The measure also requires the nonprofit entity to verify its educational activities.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one concerned individual.

 

Your Committee finds that the study of Hawaiian culture is required by the Hawaii Constitution and that the use of canoes has always been an essential part of Hawaiian culture.  This measure would promote the study of Hawaiian culture through the use of Native Hawaiian canoes.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 1371, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1371, 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