STAND. COM. REP. NO. 576

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1089
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1089 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL MARINE LICENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to delete obsolete or
unnecessary language and to clarify and simplify the reporting
requirements for holders of a commercial marine license.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).  Boat
Owners Association of The State of Hawaii testified in support of
the intent to clarify current law, with comments.

     Your Committee finds that this year DLNR will begin the
process of amending the administrative rules for commercial
marine licenses, and the intent of this measure is to give DLNR
additional flexibility in the process.  While your Committee is
supportive of the intent to simplify the reporting requirements,
in particular, members share the concerns expressed in the
hearing regarding the deletion of a contested case hearing under
Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), before revocation of a
commercial marine license, and that the proposed reporting
amendments were overly broad.

     Your Committee notes that in a subsequent letter dated
February 26, 1999, the Chairperson of the Board of Land and
Natural Resources stated that the removal of language from

 
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Section 189-3(a), HRS, will not remove a person's due process
under Chapter 91, HRS, and that Section 13-74-3(3), Hawaii
Administrative Rules, also covers this concern.

     Your Committee therefore has amended this measure to clarify
that the reporting information required in section 189-3(a), HRS,
is for monitoring of catches by commercial marine licensees.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1089, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1089,
S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



                                   ______________________________
                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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