CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 147

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1133

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

C.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1133, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to protect fragile marine ecosystems and the marine life within them through managing access to marine life conservation districts that are inaccessible by land by:

(1) Limiting the total number of commercial use permits that may be issued for each such conservation district to forty;

(2) Capping the number of commercial use permittees that may access each conservation district at any one time to no more than fifty percent of the current number of permittees for that district; and

(3) Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to immediately begin the rule-making process to address overcrowding and fish disruption at Molokini Shoal Marine Life Conservation District and to report its progress to the Legislature.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the number of commercial permittees that may access a marine life conservation district that is inaccessible by land at any one time shall be fifty percent of all current permittees for that district; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1133, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1133, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ KAIALI'I KAHELE Chair	____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE Co-Chair
____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER Co-Chair	____________________________ CHRIS LEE Co-Chair
____________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN Co-Chair	____________________________ CHRIS TODD Co-Chair