STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1068

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1124

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 1124 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that a person at least eighteen years of age need not obtain a marine surveyor's inspection nor provide documentation that the person is the owner of a vessel in order to be placed on a waitlist for a use permit to moor a vessel in a state small boat harbor.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided testimony in support.  An individual provided testimony in opposition.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Permitting a vessel inspection by the Department of Land and Natural Resources to satisfy use permit requirements; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussions.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1124, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1124, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair