STAND. COM. REP. NO.  576

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 720

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 720 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WEST MAUI OCEAN RECREATION MANAGEMENT AREA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the West Maui Ocean Recreation Management Area Advisory Committee and to add one member with a background in ocean safety.

Several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Kaanapali Kai Charters, Ocean Tourism Coalition, Quicksilver Charters, and Frogman Charters opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Deleting the Advisory Committee members' exemption from Chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as it applies only in the case of a temporary committee; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to December 24, 2088, to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 720, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 720, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KANIELA ING, Chair