STAND. COM. REP. NO. 25
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 1448
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. 1448 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Deletes language establishing a Tourism Special Fund expenditure relating to expanded visa programs that is set to expire on June 30, 2015; and
(2) Clarifies the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaii Tourism Authority's expenditure authority over Transient Accommodations Tax revenue allocated to the Special Land and Development Fund.
Your Committee has amended this measure by 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. 1448, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1448, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism,
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____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair |
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