STAND. COM. REP. NO. 895

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1727

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1727, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to coordinate and oversee all marketing efforts of products made in Hawaii to ensure that state funds are used in a conservative and creative manner without being wasteful or redundant.

Specifically, this bill requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to coordinate and oversee the marketing of all products made in Hawaii in such areas as planning, promoting, selling, and distributing products that are made in Hawaii with the cooperation and participation of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. The bill further requires all state agencies using state funds to market and promote products made in Hawaii to report the expenditures and specific allocations of the funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism at the end of each fiscal year. The Department is to establish and maintain a comprehensive information list providing the most current information and share it with the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

Your Committee believes that there is a need to centralize and coordinate the marketing of products made in Hawaii so that state funds can be better utilized and conserved to avoid duplication of efforts.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Conforming the text in section 486-119, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the printed version, on page 2, line 10; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1727, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1727, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair