STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1471

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1168

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1168, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOATING SPECIAL FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the boating special fund to be used to pay for planning, developing, managing, operating, or maintaining lands and improvements under the control and management of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, including the hiring of permanent or temporary civil service exempt staff.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the boating special fund is the sole funding source of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation's capital improvement projects, repair and maintenance of small boat harbors and boating and ocean recreational facilities, and programs.  Your Committees further find that the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation would be able to generate additional revenue for the boating special fund if the division had the capacity to plan, develop, and manage currently underutilized public lands and improvements under its jurisdiction.  This expanded capacity will only be possible if the division is able to hire additional staff that have specialized skills and expertise in areas outside of the division's existing staff, such as real estate planning and development.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying that the boating special fund may be used for permanent or temporary civil service exempt positions, among other uses, similarly to the permissible expenditures from the special land and development fund.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1168, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1168, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Ways and Means,

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

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LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair