Bill Text: HI SB68 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ocean Resources; Commercial Activities; DLNR

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB68 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB68-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 831

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 68

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 68, S.D. 1, 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 commercial enterprises that originate from private marinas and utilize state waters or marine resources.

 

Your Committee received eleven written comments on this measure.  Copies of written comments submitted to the Committee are available for review on the Legislature’s website.

 

Your Committee finds that the State's waters and marine resources would suffer harm and depletion from disruptive uses and overuse by commercial enterprises.  Your Committee further finds that this measure would extend the regulatory authority of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include commercial enterprises that originate from private marinas and use state waters.  Your Committee believes that this measure addresses a potential situation whereby commercial enterprises may avoid regulation by originating their business from a private marina instead of a public boat harbor or marina.  Your Committee further finds that this measure is not intended to require additional regulation or new permits for commercial activities that are regulated under any other chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.   

 

Your Committee recognizes that commercial enterprises and activities that use state waters play an important part in the State's visitor economy.  Your Committee also believes, however, that it is important to balance economic enrichment and protecting the State's ocean resources.  Accordingly, your Committee believes that the regulations provided under this measure will promote economic activity and still protect state waters and marine resources.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 68, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 68, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair