STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3301

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2911

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2911, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOATING REPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to add each county's fire chief and ocean safety director to the list of persons required to transmit boating reports to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that fire departments and ocean safety agencies are the entities that typically respond to boating incidents and that the inclusion of these agencies' reports will result in more comprehensive data that may aid efforts to increase boating safety.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to upon its approval.

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. 2911, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2911, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair