Bill Text: HI HB1486 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Small Boat Harbors; Permits
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1486 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1486-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 431
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: H.B. No. 1486
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1486 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to require small boat harbor vessel permittees who, in the course of providing an excursion using state boating facilities, disembark fare-paying passengers in certain counties with the expectation that they will visit and participate in recreational activity on state property adjacent to quasi-public property during the excursion, to accompany passengers at all times while ashore.
The Hulopo'e Beach Park Council; Castle & Cooke Resorts, LLC; and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and a concerned individual opposed this measure.
Your Committee finds that operators procuring permits under the Ocean Recreation and Coastal Area Programs law are engaged in commercial activity and should therefore be responsible for accompanying their passengers at all times while ashore.
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. 1486 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,
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____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair |
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