Bill Text: HI HB2589 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vessels; Custody and Disposition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-21 - (S) Act 146, 6/21/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1248). [HB2589 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2589-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  648-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2589

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2589, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VESSELS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify responsibility for the disposing of abandoned vessels within the State.  This measure also amends the description of abandoned vessel.

 

     The Ocean Tourism Coalition supported this bill.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the mayor of each county may act through a designee;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide each county with access to vessel registration or marine document records;

 

     (3)  Specifying that a county's responsibility under the bill will commence when the Department of Land and Natural Resources provides access to its vessel registration or marine document records or January 1, 2013, whichever is earlier; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2589, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2589, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair