STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1400
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2025
RE: S.B. No. 1083
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 1083, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PORT INFRASTRUCTURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The
purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include line-item
funding for maintenance dredging at state small boat harbor facilities in its
annual budget request for each fiscal biennium beginning with the 2027-2029
fiscal biennium; and
(2) Appropriate funds for maintenance dredging at
state small boat harbors, boat launch ramp facilities, and other state boating
facilities and waterways.
Your Committee finds
that maintenance dredging is critical to the upkeep of the State's small boat
harbors, channels, ramps, and other port infrastructure. Your Committee further finds that the Department
of Land and Natural Resources must obtain funding for dredging through the
capital improvement project budget, which often delays the commencement of
dredging projects, resulting in increased dredging costs and interfering with
vessel navigation and the launching and retrieval of vessels at small boat
harbors and other state boating facilities and waterways. Your Committee believes that requiring the Department
of Land and Natural Resources to include funding for maintenance dredging as
part of the Department's annual budget request will ensure the State's harbors
and launch facilities are timely maintained to be safe and accessible.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Your
Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate
on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $ 5,000,000.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1083, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1083, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,
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____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM, Chair |