STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3018

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2582

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2582, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VESSELS AT ALA WAI AND KEEHI BOAT HARBORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to adjust the liveaboard fees paid by permittees who moor vessels at the Ala Wai and Keehi boat harbors.

 

     Specifically, this measure requires a permittee using a vessel as a place of principal habitation to pay a liveaboard fee in lieu of the moorage fee and adjusts the liveaboard fees for vessels moored at Ala Wai and Keehi boat harbors, by an amount equal to:

 

(1)  Three times the moorage fee assessed per month for a recreational vessel of the same size, for residents; and

 

(2)  Three and one-half times the moorage fee assessed per month for a recreational vessel of the same size, for nonresidents.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  Comments in opposition were received from the Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association and from twenty-seven individuals.  Written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to require permittees who use recreational vessels as a place of principal habitation to pay the liveaboard fee in addition to, and not in lieu of, the moorage fee.  This will ensure that both the moorage and liveaboard fees are paid, as currently required by section 200-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee has also amended the measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion on this matter.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2582, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2582, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair