STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1548

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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1124, H.D. 1, 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 make clarifying amendments affecting use permits for small boat harbors by providing that:

(1)  A person at least 18 years of age need not obtain a marine surveyor's inspection nor provide documentation that the person is the owner of a vessel to be placed on a waitlist for a use permit to moor a vessel in a state small boat harbor; and

(2)  As an alternative to a vessel inspection by a marine surveyor, a vessel inspection may be conducted by an approved vessel inspector employed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1124, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair