Bill Text: HI HB692 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Harbors; Capital Improvement Projects; Revenue Bond; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to TIA, WAM. [HB692 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB692-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  861

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 692

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 692, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of harbor revenue bonds to finance certain harbor capital improvement projects.

 

     The General Contractors Association of Hawaii, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, Land Use Research Foundation, and one concerned individual submitted testimony in support of the measure.  The Department of Transportation submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will fund critical harbor improvement projects that make harbors throughout the State safer and more functional.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing all of the appropriations to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 692, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 692, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair