STAND. COM. REP. 748

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1560

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1560 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF VESSELS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to provide the owner of a vessel an opportunity for an administrative hearing to contest the basis for DLNR's impoundment of the vessel; and

(2) Raise from $250 to $5,000 the appraised value of impounded vessels that must be sold by public auction by DLNR.

DLNR submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style, clarity, and conformity.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1560, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1560, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair