Bill Text: HI HCR204 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Working Group; Shipping; Maui to Oahu

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-26 - Received notice of Agreement and Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 748). [HCR204 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR204-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	204
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THE DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY, CONSIDER, AND RECOMMEND WAYS TO REDUCE THE transport TIME AND COST OF SHIPPING GOODS TO OAHU FROM MOLOKAI, LANAI, AND HANA, MAUI.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the State is detrimentally reliant on the importation of goods, including agricultural and retail goods; and

 

     WHEREAS, buying locally produced goods promotes a sustainable economic environment in the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, the residents of the various islands of the State, including Maui, grow and manufacture agricultural and retail goods that are in high demand throughout the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, the residents of Oahu consume more goods than residents of any other county; and

 

     WHEREAS, shipping goods to Oahu from Molokai, Lanai, and Hana, Maui, is costly and time-consuming; and

 

     WHEREAS, new efficiencies in shipping goods from the County of Maui to Oahu would result in increased jobs and economic activity that will benefit all residents of the State; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, the Senate concurring, that the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is requested to establish a working group to study, consider, and recommend ways to reduce the time and cost of shipping goods to Oahu from Molokai, Lanai, and Hana, Maui; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, in addition to other strategies, the working transport group is requested to consider the following strategies for reducing transport time and cost:

 

     (1)  Identifying and proposing amendments to any existing statute, administrative rule, or ordinance to reduce transport time and cost;

 

     (2)  The feasibility of alternative modes of transportation or other means of shipping freight between islands;

 

     (3)  Reducing taxes or creating tax incentives; and

 

     (4)  Any other issues that the working group considers appropriate; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is requested to serve as the chairperson of the working group and invite the following persons, or their respective designees, to serve as members of the working group:

 

     (1)  The Director of Transportation;

 

     (2)  The Director of Taxation;

 

     (3)  The Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture;

 

     (4)  A county official from the County of Maui, to be appointed by the Mayor of the County of Maui;

 

     (5)  A representative from the airline industry, to be appointed by the Senate President;

 

     (6)  A member representing the Island of Molokai, appointed by the President of the Senate;

 

     (7)  A member representing the Island of Lanai, appointed by the Governor; and

 

     (8)  A member representing the community of Hana, Maui, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is requested to provide all administrative, technical, professional, and clerical support required by the working group for matters pertaining to this measure; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the working group is requested to report to the Legislature its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2014; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the working group cease to exist on June 30, 2014; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Director of Transportation, Director of Taxation, Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture, and the Mayor of Maui County.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Working Group; Shipping; Maui to Oahu