STAND. COM. REP. NO.  409

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1412

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1412 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote and preserve the Hawaiian culture by requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to accommodate mooring of native Hawaiian canoes owned by nonprofit entities and used for educational purposes in small boat harbors, as practicable.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies opposed this measure.  

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1412 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair