STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2715

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3130

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3130, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSFERABILITY OF MOORING PERMITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize state small boat harbor mooring permit holders to transfer the holders' respective mooring permits, subject to certain conditions.

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

Your Committee finds that applicants for state small boat harbor mooring permits often must wait many years to receive a mooring permit, despite having no place to moor the applicant's vessel in the meantime. Consequently, many vessel owners are unable to sell their respective vessels. Your Committee believes that this measure will help to facilitate the sale and purchase of previously owned vessels.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Reorganizing certain provisions for purposes of clarity and consistency;

(2) Clarifying that failure to comply with the law while selling a vessel or transferring a mooring permit will result in the automatic termination of the applicable mooring permit;

(3) Changing the effective date to upon approval; and

(4) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 3130, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3130, 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