STAND. COM. REP. NO.  973

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 1161

      S.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 S.B. No. 1161, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VESSELS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to relieve the Department of Land and Natural Resources of costs associated with improper mooring and other delinquencies of ocean vessel owners by requiring the costs associated with the impoundment and disposal of an unauthorized vessel to be borne by the owner of the vessel and to prohibit renewal or transfer of vessel registration under certain circumstances.  

The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported this measure.

     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 S.B. No. 1161, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair