STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3133

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.R. No. 50
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.R. No. 50 entitled:

     "SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS,
     ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE
     EFFECTS OF BIG BOX RETAILERS ON LOCAL SMALL AND MEDIUM
     RETAIL BUSINESSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of
Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct a study on
the effects of big box retailers on local small and medium retail
businesses.

     Comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of
Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Department of
Taxation, and Retail Merchants of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that this measure would provide further
information on issues that have been examined in the past, but
not in the detail requested in this study.  Your Committee
believes such information will be of value for both Hawaii's
retail merchants, as well as consumers.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to include the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations as a cooperating
agency in the study.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of
S.R. No. 50, as amended herein, and recommends that it be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached
hereto as S.R. No. 50, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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