Bill Text: HI SB2547 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Small Boat Harbors; Permits

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 674). [SB2547 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2547-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1109-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2547

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 2547, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide that where an applicant for a commercial permit will disembark farepaying passengers with the expectation that they will enter upon any public or quasi-public real property during the course of an excursion between state boating facilities, the permit is conditioned on compliance with all rules applicable to those areas.

 

     Castle & Cooke Resorts, LLC, and its affiliates, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and several concerned individuals opposed this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Replacing the provisions in this bill with provisions that would require as a condition of any permit issued under the Ocean Recreational Law, that any permittee who, in the course of providing an excursion using state boating facilities, disembarks fare-paying passengers in certain counties with the expectation that the passengers will visit and participate in recreational activity on state property adjacent to quasi-public property during the excursion, to ensure that all such passengers while ashore are accompanied and supervised by a crew member qualified to render aid in an emergency;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2547, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2547, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair