STAND. COM. REP. NO.  418

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 955

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 955 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to aid the Department of Taxation in gathering information about transient accommodations operators by changing the penalty for transient accommodations owners and lessors of property who fail to report and display required contact information to specific parties regarding transient accommodations from a criminal to a civil penalty.

 

     The Department of Taxation and Outrigger Hotels Hawaii supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language stipulating that civil penalties shall be imposed no more than once per year.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 955, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 955, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism,

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair