STAND. COM. REP. NO.  82

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1442

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1442 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FISHING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist the fishing industry on the Island of Hawaii by requiring the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo) to conduct a study on the feasibility of developing a public entity on the Island of Hawaii modeled after the commercial fishing village at the City and County of Honolulu's Pier 38.

 

     A concerned individual supported this bill with amendments.  UH Hilo supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying language in the purpose section to specify the nature of the pier and commercial fishing village; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1442, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1442, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

 

		____________________________ SCOTT NISHIMOTO, Chair