STAND. COM. REP. NO.  385

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1259

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 1259 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 enhance the operational effectiveness and efficiency of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) by making permanent certain statutory provisions, originally enacted in 2004, that grant the HTA independent management and oversight authority over its own financial operations.  

 

     The Hawaii Tourism Authority supported this measure with amendments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding a provision to increase the portion of the Tourism Special Fund that may be used for HTA's administrative expenses; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1259, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1259, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair