STAND. COM. REP. 1472

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1403

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1403 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S MARITIME-RELATED USES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide the Harbors Division of the Department of Transportation (DOT) with greater flexibility to develop lands and facilities, subject to the approval of the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the DOT, Maritime Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Young Brothers, Limited, Transmarine Navigation Corporation, and Waldron Steamship Co., Ltd. Hawaii's Thousand Friends opposed the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing its effective date from upon approval to July 1, 2005; and

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

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 S.B. No. 1403, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1403, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair