STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3936

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1785

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Labor, Culture and the Arts and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1785, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOURISM GOVERNANCE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide for a more effective tourism governance system for the State.

 

     Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires and appropriates moneys to the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study that identifies and analyzes alternative tourism governance systems and to submit a report to the Legislature regarding potential tourism governance options for its consideration;

 

     (2)  Establishes in statute the four core functions under which the Hawaii Tourism Authority shall operate its programs;

 

     (3)  Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to perform actions specified in the Authority's destination management action plans;

 

     (4)  Prohibits the Hawaii Tourism Authority from contracting with entities for services or programs that fall within more than one of the four core functions;

 

     (5)  Requires all branding contracts to be performance-based;

 

     (6)  Requires the organization of the Hawaii Tourism Authority to reflect the four core functions, and establishes applicable positions; and

 

     (7)  Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

 

     Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from three individuals.

 

     Your Committees received written comments in opposition to this measure from the State Procurement Office.

 

     Your Committees received written comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Budget and Finance, Hawaii Tourism Authority, and Legislative Reference Bureau.

 

     Your Committees find that specifying the destination action management goals and objectives in statute and aligning the organization of the Hawaii Tourism Authority to those goals and objectives will ensure the Authority's accountability and allow the Authority to execute the objectives identified in its destination management action plans more quickly and efficiently.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing for the lapse on June 30, 2024, of moneys appropriated to the Legislative Reference Bureau;

 

     (2)  Adding to the Hawaii Tourism Authority's list of statutory duties the development of a destination management action plan for each county;

 

     (3)  Changing the source of moneys for the various appropriations made to the Hawaii Tourism Authority from general funds to federal American Rescue Plan Act funds;

 

     (4)  Changing the amount appropriated to the Hawaii Tourism Authority for administrative costs from $3,972,107, to $4,984,417, and making corresponding changes to the administrative and organizational structure of the Authority; and

 

     (5)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Your Committees note that the following organizational chart, reflecting a focus on the four "pillars" or core functions of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, graphically depicts your Committees' intended organizational structure of the Hawaii Tourism Authority as contemplated under this measure:

 



 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor, Culture and the Arts and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1785, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1785, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor, Culture and the Arts and Ways and Means,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair