STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2760

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3227

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3227, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to expand the authority of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to assist in the development of the statewide harbors modernization plan.

     This measure also authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue revenue bonds to finance harbor improvements and transfers the Hana harbor, excluding its small boat ramp facility, from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Aloha Tower Development Corporation, Hawaii Harbors Users Group, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Retail Merchants of Hawaii.  The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu offered comments.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by making various technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, 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 S.B. No. 3227, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3227, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair