STAND. COM. REP. NO 613

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1124

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water and 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 and intent 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.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Act 10, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, amended section 200‑10(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that a person must be at least eighteen years of age prior to obtaining a use permit or being placed on a waitlist for a use permit.  Your Committee finds that Act 10 amendments have the unintended consequence of requiring that a person at least eighteen years of age obtain a marine surveyor's inspection and provide documentation that the person is the owner of a vessel prior to being placed on the waitlist for a use permit.

     Your Committee further finds that the majority of people requesting to be placed on the waitlist do not own a vessel at the time they apply to be placed on a waitlist, since they do not yet have a place to moor the vessel.  The fact that the person may not yet have a place to moor the vessel should not impair the ability to be placed on the waitlist.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1124 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair