STAND. COM. REP. NO.  463

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 979

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 979 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect the State from costly lawsuits by authorizing the Department of Transportation to adopt rules to require private parties, who use or occupy state commercial harbors, to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the State against liability for claims that arise from such use.

The Department of Transportation supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 979, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 979, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair