STAND. COM. REP. NO. 54

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 283

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 283 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the qualification and term limit requirements for the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Tourism Authority.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies ambiguities in section 201B-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with regard to the qualification and term limit requirements for the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Tourism Authority.  Your Committee further finds that the term "accommodations", as used in the tourism industry, embraces the management, promotion, and marketing of facilities and that the use of this term in the statute is more appropriate.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 283 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism and International Affairs,

 

 

 

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GILBERT KAHELE, Chair