Bill Text: HI HB2347 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Parasailing; Time Limit on Permits

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (S) Referred to EDT/WTL. [HB2347 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2347-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  636-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2347

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MAXIMUM TERM OF COMMERCIAL USE AND OPERATOR PERMITS FOR THRILL CRAFT AND PARASAILING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to change the renewal process for permits to operate thrill crafts and parasailing businesses by:

 

     (1)  Removing the 20-year limit on such permits;

 

     (2)  Making the permits renewable annually, provided that the permit holders are in good standing; and

 

     (3)  Directing the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to offer a permit for public auction, if a permit is revoked for failure to meet the conditions for renewal.

 

     The Ocean Tourism Coalition; X-Treme Parasail, Inc.; Diamond Head Parasail, Inc.; Diamond Head Parasail & Watersports, Inc.; Aloha Ocean Sports; and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.  DLNR provided comments.

 

 

 

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     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. 2347, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2347, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair