STAND. COM. REP. 2838

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2097

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2097 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOATING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to cap the use permit fee for commercial vessels moored at small boat harbors at three per cent of gross revenues, effective January 1, 2004.

This measure also requires that all fees and penalties imposed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources be deposited into the boating special fund.

This measure would help support the commercial ocean tour industry by enhancing the revenue available to fund improvements to our deteriorating small boat facilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by delaying the effective date in order to move this measure forward while the impact on revenues is studied in the course of the Legislature's work on the state budget.

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 S.B. No. 2097, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2097, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair