STAND. COM. REP. 2812

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2404

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2404, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EXPENSES OF THE 2005 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES MEETING IN HONOLULU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist the City and County of Honolulu in hosting the 2005 National Association of Counties Annual Conference and Exposition.

Your Committee finds that the City and County of Honolulu was selected to host the 2005 National Association of Counties Annual Conference and Exposition from July 15 through 19, 2005, at the Hawaii Convention Center. Between seventy-five hundred and ten thousand attendees and guests are expected. If eight thousand attendees and guests attend the conference, it is estimated that over $2,084,000 would be generated in state tax revenues. The appropriation is to be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis with the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the specific appropriation to facilitate further discussion on this matter.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2404, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2404, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair