STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2587

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3082

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3082 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRUISE SHIPS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer the cruise ship air emission provisions from Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), chapter 342D, Water Pollution, to HRS, chapter 342B, Air Pollution Control.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Director of Health.

     Your Committees find that as HRS chapter 342D, which is titled Water Pollution, currently addresses both water and large commercial passenger ship air pollution, the implementation of the cruise ship air pollution related provisions by the Department of Health is currently difficult and cumbersome.  Therefore, this measure supports the Department of Health in smoothly and effectively fulfilling its responsibilities with regard to regulating air pollution from commercial passenger vessels by inserting the related statute into the more appropriate chapter within the HRS.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Correcting an incorrect statutory cross-reference; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3082, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3082, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation and International Affairs,

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

____________________________ RON MENOR, Chair