STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2662

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2134

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2134 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Transportation to negotiate leases for the non-maritime use of commercial harbors, commercial harbor and waterfront improvements, ports, docks, wharves, pipers, quays, bulkheads, and landings belonging to or controlled by the State.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Harbor Users Group and Young Brothers, LLC.

Your Committees find that the Department of Transportation should be able to lease maritime infrastructure for non-maritime usage. This measure authorizes the Department of Transportation to negotiate such leases when necessary.

Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying that the non-maritime use of commercial harbors, commercial harbor and waterfront improvements, ports, docks, wharves, piers, quays, bulkheads, and landings shall be located within the Aloha Tower complex designated boundaries.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2134, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2134, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Water and Land,

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair