Bill Text: HI HB2380 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 2380 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Working Group; Shipping; Molokai; Lanai; Hana; Oahu; Goods; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-26 - (H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-27-12 1:30PM in conference room 225. [HB2380 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2380-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3330

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2380

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2380, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SHIPPING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a working group to analyze options for reducing shipping time and costs for goods transported from Molokai, Lanai, and Hana, Maui to Oahu.

Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Maui County Council. Written comments were submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Your Committee finds that the smaller islands and remote areas of the State are significantly impacted by high shipping costs and the lack of timely transportation scheduling. Your Committee also finds that the working group created by this measure will assist the State in identifying and analyzing possible solutions to the rising costs of shipping.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the executive director of the Hawaii Farmers Union United shall serve as a member of the working group; and

(2) Making an appropriation, to be expended by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, for the necessary resources to study and examine options and assess incentives to improve the timely shipping of goods from Lanai, Molokai, and Hana, Maui to Oahu.

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 H.B. No. 2380, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2380, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair