Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 128, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to permit contracts for the provision of beach service operations that are dedicated to the preservation of Hawaiian beachboy tradition without the requirement of any public notice or sealed bid.

Your Committee finds that it is important both culturally and economically to retain the Hawaiian beachboy tradition in the provision of beach services at our public beaches. Present law allows concessions of beach services space to nonprofit corporations that are dedicated to the preservation of the Hawaiian beachboy tradition without need for public notice or sealed bid.

This measure will continue to exempt Hawaiian beachboy operations from the public notice and sealed bid procedures; however, it imposes additional requirements relating to, among other things, minimum years of experience, knowledge of the Hawaiian beachboy tradition, and minimum years of experience with ocean survival. It further limits these concessions geographically to the area from San Souci or Kaimana Beach to the Ala Wai boat harbor and temporally to one-year contracts.

Your Committee has amended this measure by leaving the maximum term that these contracts may extend unspecified and by making other technical nonsubstantive corrections for purposes of clarity and style.

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 H.B. No. 128, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 128, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.