STAND. COM. REP. NO. 935-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: H.B. No. 2130
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2130, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to protect Hawaii's harbors by:
(1) Establishing a Harbor Land Commission to identify and designate lands that are important for present and future harbor operations; and
(2) Restrict the use of lands that are designated as important harbor lands to maritime use.
The ILWU Local 142 testified in support of this bill. Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (A&B), Matson Navigation Company, Inc., A&B Properties, Inc., and Young Brothers, Limited, supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Transportation opposed this bill. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Excluding other privately-owned lands that are contiguous to any commercial harbor that may be required for future harbor use from the requirement that the permitted use of all important harbor lands be used solely as a commercial harbor; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 2130, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2130, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair |
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