Bill Text: HI HB2682 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ocean Resources; Commercial Activities, Department of Land and Natural Resources

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 289, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1406). [HB2682 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2682-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  476-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2682

      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 Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2682 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON OCEAN WATERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to regulate the commercial use of state waters and marine resources.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and four individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by defining "commercial activity" and "compensation" to clarify that this measure applies to all commercial activity under chapter 200, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than just shark feeding.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2682, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2682, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair