Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 415, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend the inter-island ferry vessel preferential consideration to Maalaea small boat harbor.

Act 160, Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session of 1997, provided special preferential consideration for ferry vessels at Lahaina small boat harbor, for transportation between the islands of Maui and Molokai. The issuance of a commercial operating permit and a waiver of applicable fees accompanied

this preferential consideration.

This bill extends the same preferential consideration for the small boat harbor at Maalaea.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 415, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 415, H.D. 2.