Bill Text: HI SB1161 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Impounded Vessels; Vessel Registration

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 121, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). [SB1161 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1161-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1162

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1161

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1161, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VESSELS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify:

 

     (1)  That all costs and expenses associated with the impoundment and disposal of an unauthorized vessel by the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall be borne by the vessel owner; and

 

     (2)  Circumstances when no vessel registration shall be renewed or transferred.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding provisions permitting a court of competent jurisdiction to grant an income withholding order for fines imposed upon a vessel owner in violation of laws regarding abandoned vessels and establishing procedures for withholding income; and

 

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

 

     Your Committee notes that the income withholding provisions of this measure may raise issues that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of your Committee on Judiciary.  Your Committee further notes that it has sent this measure to the Department of the Attorney General for further review.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1161, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1161, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair