STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2170
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2902
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2902 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIVEABOARD FEES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the current rate of the liveaboard fee for state small boat harbors and clarify that the liveaboard fee may be increased or decreased by rules adopted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Your Committee finds that the State has one hundred sixty-four liveaboard slips located in the Ala Wai and Keehi Lagoon small boat harbors. Liveaboard permittees pay a fee to reside on their vessels, to offset increased costs for facilities and security, and that fee has not been increased since 1991. Your Committee further finds that increasing the liveaboard fee is necessary to cover increased costs and that authorizing the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adjust liveaboard fees by rule is consistent with other mooring and commercial maritime fees that are similarly adjusted by rule.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2902, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2902, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,
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________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair |
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