STAND. COM. REP. NO. 331

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1371

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1371 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

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

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the traditional native Hawaiian practice of using native Hawaiian canoes needs to be preserved and perpetuated in the interests of promulgating the native Hawaiian culture.  Mooring of native Hawaiian canoes in small boat harbors is a practical necessity, especially for a nonprofit entity operating native Hawaiian canoes for educational purposes.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the phrase "insofar as practicable," which may severely limit the availability of moorings; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1371, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1371, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair

 

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair