STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1687-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2196

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2196, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON OCEAN WATERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Land and Natural Resources to regulate commercially permitted uses of both governmental and private boating facilities as well as commercial activities in private marinas that are not already regulated by the State.

     Ocean Tourism Coalition and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure. 

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

     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 S.B. No. 2196, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2196, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair