Bill Text: HI SB1227 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Tourism Authority; Department of Tourism

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1227 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1227-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1245

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1227

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1227, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to abolish the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) and establish the Department of Tourism.  This bill also establishes a Working Group on Interagency Relations to provide for a comprehensive plan and transition to the newly established Department of Tourism.

 

     The Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu supported this bill.  HTA, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Hawaii Hotel and Lodging Association, Diamond Resort, Outrigger Hotels, Maui Hotel and Lodging Association, and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2120, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1227, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1227, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JOEY MANAHAN, Chair