Bill Text: HI HB2380 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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. 61-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2380
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Transportation and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2380 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SHIPPING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to assist businesses on Molokai and Lanai, as well as the residents of those islands, by establishing a working group to examine economically feasible options to reduce the time necessary to ship goods from Molokai and Lanai to Oahu, including revising restrictions on shipping, the feasibility of establishing a state barge company or other means of interisland shipping, the reduction of shipping taxes, and the creation of tax incentives.
Providing barge service to meet the needs of the people and businesses of Molokai and Lanai is challenging. Additionally, low cargo volume often results in increased costs for the shipping companies, which in turn makes necessary rate subsidization by other profitable routes and lines of service. Establishing a working group to review and address the costs of shipping goods to Oahu from Molokai and Lanai and the reasons for these costs is the first step in addressing this issue.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Requiring the working group to consider the feasibility of alternative forms of transportation for reducing shipping time and costs rather than specifying barge and ferry service;
(2) Adding a representative of the Department of Taxation to the working group as the working group is also required to consider the creation of tax incentives and tax reductions to reduce shipping costs;
(3) Removing the representative from the City and County of Honolulu from the working group;
(4) Adding a representative from the island of Molokai to the working group;
(5) Inserting language exempting certain members of the working group from the ethics requirements under Chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(6) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2057, to encourage further discussion; and
(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2380, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2380, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Economic Revitalization & Business,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair |
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