STAND. COM. REP. NO. 517

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1127

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 1127 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 appropriate funds for three full-time equivalent positions under the Department of Law Enforcement to provide security at small boat harbors on Maui.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement and Quicksilver Charters, LLC.

Your Committees find that conditions at Lahaina Harbor are both unsafe and unsanitary due to a rise in theft, vandalism, and littering of dangerous refuse, such as used needles. Your Committees believe that funding is needed to reinforce state law enforcement presence in Lahaina Harbor and other similarly affected small boat harbors. This measure will improve public safety and complement the Department of Law Enforcement's vision of building strong partnerships with the community and first response agencies for addressing community-wide challenges that impact community welfare by appropriating funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for three full-time equivalent positions to provide security at small boat harbors on Maui.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting language requiring the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, in collaboration with the County of Maui and any other private entities the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation and County of Maui deem necessary, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the transfer of the rights for certain small boat harbors on Maui;

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) 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 Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1127, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1127, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Water and Land,

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair