STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1202

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 892

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 892, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Law Enforcement to provide security at small boat harbors on Maui, including the hiring of three full-time equivalent positions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Trilogy Corporation, Maui Adventure Cruises Inc., and five individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the source of the appropriation from the general fund to the Boating Special Fund;

(2) Changing the expending agency to the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 892, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 892, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair