STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3020

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2741

       H.D. 1

       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. 2741, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to adjust and set certain fees paid by permittees who moor vessels in the State's small 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 changes the liveaboard fees 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.

 

The measure also requires a permittee who uses a vessel for commercial fishing activity from its permitted mooring to pay, in lieu of the moorage and liveaboard fees, a fee that is two times the moorage fee assessed for a recreational vessel of the same size.

 

     Furthermore, this measure defines "commercial fishing activity" and allows a person owning an interest in a corporation or other business entity operating a commercial fishing vessel to make a one-time transfer of interest, under certain conditions, without terminating the right to retain or renew the vessel's mooring permit or any other permits issued by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association and seventeen individuals.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments.  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.

 

     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. 2741, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2741, H.D. 1, 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