STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1343

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 892

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 892, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds from the Boating Special Fund for the hire of three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide security at small boat harbors on Maui.

 

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

 

     Your Committees find that small boat harbors on Maui have been plagued by vandalism, graffiti, illegal dumping, homelessness, damage to restrooms, and general unsanitary conditions.  Therefore, this measure provides funding for additional security at Maui small boat harbors to help prevent and deter acts of vandalism and ensure that Maui's harbors are safe, clean, and hospitable for all.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting a blank amount for the number of full-time equivalent permanent positions to be established;

 

     (2)  Providing that appropriations will be used to establish positions for security at small boat harbors statewide, as opposed to solely for the island of Maui; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 892, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 892, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair