STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2340

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2450

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2450 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Transportation to weigh any ocean transport container offloaded at any harbor in the State and fine any company that offloads an ocean transport container having an excessive gross weight.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation and Matson Navigation Company, Inc.

Your Committee finds that thousands of pounds of cargo enter the State's ports on a daily basis, providing essential goods ranging from food and supplies to commodities. As an island state, Hawaii is dependent upon commercial harbors to ensure the continued and unimpeded flow of cargo through the State. This measure establishes safeguards for offloaded cargo to continue effective, timely operations at the State's harbors.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2450, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2450, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair