STAND. COM. REP. NO.  335

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1423

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1423 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MALA WHARF TASK FORCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to examine the feasibility of redeveloping the collapsed pier at Mala Wharf on the island of Maui by establishing a Mala Wharf Task Force.

 

     The Ocean Tourism Coalition and a member of the Maui County Council supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion; and

 

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


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1423, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1423, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair