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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HONOLULU HARBOR, OAHU.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The cruise ship industry has experienced large
 
 2 growth rates both in Hawaii and around the world.  While for many
 
 3 years the airplane has been the preferred mode of travel,
 
 4 passenger cruising has become more popular.  There are several
 
 5 reasons for this:
 
 6      (1)  Cruising is a better value than traditional air-land
 
 7           vacation package when all costs are considered.
 
 8      (2)  According to the cruise industry, the maturing baby
 
 9           boom industry is ready to travel.  They have both the
 
10           money and time to go ocean cruising.
 
11      (3)  Finally, because airlines have cut travel agents
 
12           commissions while cruise lines still give travel agents
 
13           full commission, travel agents encourage cruises more
 
14           than airline travel.
 
15      There is a current worldwide boom in cruise travel.  To meet
 
16 this boom, cruise lines are building cruise ships in record
 
17 numbers.  Besides becoming more numerous, the new ships are much
 
18 larger than the older ships.
 
19      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate moneys toward, and
 

 
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 1 to express strong legislative and community support for,
 
 2 additional cruise ship berths in Honolulu Harbor.  The Oahu
 
 3 Commercial Harbors 2020 Master Plan recommends that, in order to
 
 4 increase Hawaii's share of the global cruise tour market,
 
 5 Honolulu Harbor must provide more cruise ship berths.
 
 6      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the revenues of the
 
 7 harbor special fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of
 
 8 $___________ or so much thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal
 
 9 year 1999-2000, for the planning, design, and construction of a
 
10 cruise ship passenger terminal at Pier 2, Honolulu Harbor.
 
11      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
12 department of transportation for the purposes of this Act.
 
13      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999. 
 
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15                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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