STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2590

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2303
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2303, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer certain Public
Service Company tax revenue to the harbor special fund for the
improvement of cruise ship facilities.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide a
mechanism to provide the necessary funds to improve the State's
passenger cruise facilities for the next nine years and will
apply to the following ports:

     Berthing Ports - harbors providing a pier or wharf with
     designated spaces for vessel assignment, as follows:

     Oahu:     Honolulu Harbor;
     Maui:     Kahului Harbor;
     Kauai:    Nawiliwili Harbor, Port Allen;
     Hawaii:   Hilo Harbor, Kawaihae Harbor; and
     Molokai:  Kaunakakai Harbor.

     Anchor Ports - typically small boat harbors (under the
     jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural
     Resources) with a specific location for ships to moor, as
     follows:


 
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     Maui:     Lahaina;
     Kauai:    Kikiaola, Hanalei;
     Hawaii:   Wailoa, Kailua-Kona; and
     Lanai:    Manele.

     Your Committee amended the measure to allow the Department
of Land and Natural Resources to request moneys from the harbor
special fund from the Department of Transportation for designated
specific harbors and itemized repairs at those harbors.  The
effective date was changed to July 1, 2010.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 2303, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2303,
S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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