THE SENATE

KA AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2024

 

COMMITTEE ON WATER AND LAND

Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Chair

Senator Brandon J.C. Elefante, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2024

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

TIME:

2:00 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

WTL

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

 

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SB 2555

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STATE BOATING FACILITIES.

Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease one state small boat harbor for private development, management, maintenance, and operation in a county with a population of less than 900,000.  Repeals provisions related to the leasing of fast lands and submerged lands of the Ala Wai boat harbor.  Repeals on 6/30/2044.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 2721

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OCEAN RECREATION.

Clarifies that violation of part I of chapter 200, HRS, relating to ocean recreation and coastal areas, or any rules adopted thereunder shall be subject to criminal penalties.

 

WTL, JDC

SB 2156

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PORT INFRASTRUCTURE.

Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create a strategic plan for maintenance dredging of harbors and port locations.  Requires a report to the Legislature.  Makes an appropriation.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 2157

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VESSELS.

Beginning 1/1/2025, requires rental kayaks to be registered and numbered with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and have the identification number affixed to the rental kayak.  Requires the Department to establish fees for registration and registration renewal of rental kayaks.

 

WTL, CPN/WAM

SB 2050

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.

Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program.  Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit reports to the Legislature and adopt administrative rules.  Makes an appropriation.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 2057

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO BEACH PARK RESTORATION.

Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to hire an engineering firm to study, plan, assist, and conduct preliminary design and concept work for a two-phase project to restore the Kahaluu Beach Park in the County of Hawaii.  Conditions the appropriations on the County of Hawaii's contribution of matching funds.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 2182

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OCEAN STEWARDSHIP.

Makes permanent the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 2183

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RESTORATION OF BEACH LANDS.

Amends the definition of "beach restoration" used in laws governing the Board of Land and Natural Resources' powers to engage in beach restoration to include activities undertaken to improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems and to remove abandoned and remnant manmade materials that pose a risk to the health of the public and ecosystem.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 513

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FISHPONDS.

Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to create a standard lease application and programmatic environmental impact statement to streamline the process for leasing government-owned Hawaiian fishponds.  Appropriates funds.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 2296

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FISHPONDS.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by procuring fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Aquaculture Coordinator Biologist VI position.

 

WTL, WAM

SB 3167

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE PACIFIC MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT.

Authorizes the Governor to execute a compact on behalf of the State to cooperate in the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.  Establishes procedures for selection and succession of commissioners.

 

WTL, JDC

SB 3268

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES.

Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from establishing restrictions on the type of gear used for subsistence fishing.

 

WTL, JDC

SB 3168

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE TAKING OF MARINE DEPOSITS.

Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to approve permits for research, education, management, or propagation purposes that include the taking of sand, dead coral, coral rubble, rocks, soil, and other marine deposits seaward of the shoreline.

 

WTL, JDC

 

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-7335.