Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 23 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Land and Natural Resources to dedicate a berthing area in each county where non-profit organizations can moor their voyaging canoes.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Polynesian Voyaging Society and eight individuals.

Your Committees find that the non-profit organizations and the public educational institutions that promote the traditions of the Hawaiian culture through voyaging canoes should not be charged mooring fees by the State. This measure will request that the Department of Land and Natural Resources designate areas where such voyaging canoes may moor without being assessed a fee.

Your Committees have amended this measure to give flexibility to the counties to dedicate more than one berthing area in each county.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 23, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 23, S.D. 1.