Bill Text: HI SB367 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Commercial Thrill Craft Permit Renewal

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB367 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB367-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 426

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 367

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 367 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OCEAN RECREATION AND COASTAL AREAS PROGRAMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the thrill craft and parasailing activities law by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the provision that imposes a maximum permit term of twenty years and provides for the permit to be offered at public auction thereafter; and

 

     (2)  Deleting the requirement that all new commercial use and operator permits issued after June 18, 1996, be issued at public auction.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Ocean Tourism Coalition, the Winners Camp Hawaii Study Tours, Rent PWC’s, Hawaiian Ocean Promotions, Aloha Jetski, Aloha Ocean Sports, Hawaiian Parasail, Jet Ski’s Plus, Seabreeze Parasailing, and one hundred and twenty-two concerned individuals.  Comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  Written testimony presented to your Committee is available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the twenty-year limit and the requirement that permits be subject to public auction at the end of the twenty-year term, on permits for commercial operation of thrill craft and parasailing activities may be discriminatory and unreasonable to small business owners who have invested significant capitalization into the business to ensure safe operations.  Thrill craft and parasailing are established tourism activities which require a level of expertise to be exercised by companies under permit.

 

     Your Committee has also amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 367, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 367, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Technology,

 

		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair