STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3144

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2387

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2387 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that a person be eighteen years of age or older prior to obtaining or renewing a permit or being placed on a waitlist to obtain a permit to moor a vessel in a state small boat harbor.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committee finds that owning and mooring a vessel in a state small boat harbor or facility requires a person to sign a contract, provide liability insurance, and pay appropriate fees, in addition to maintaining the vessel to be seaworthy while moored in a state facility.  Minors usually do not possess the financial means or experience to enter into such contracts.  Thus, a person should be at least eighteen to obtain or renew a permit or be placed on a waitlist to obtain a mooring permit.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2387, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair