STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1369

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PILOTAGE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure the safe movement of all types of vessels in the State's commercial harbors by:

 

(1)  Requiring all port pilot renewal applications to comply with the Uniform Professional and Vocational Licensing Act;

 

(2)  Requiring every vessel to employ a licensed port pilot when entering or departing from any port in the State or traversing waters of the State designated as pilotage waters, regardless of whether the vessel is engaged in trade or commerce, unless otherwise exempt; and

 

(3)  Exempting vessels under 300 gross tons from pilotage regulation.  

 

     The Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, The Hawaii Association for Justice, and the Hawaii Pilots Association testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making it take effect upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Consumer Protection & Commerce that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair