STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 696-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2605
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 2605 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Establishing a one-year temporary program whereby a county can qualify to receive up to $1,000,000 in transient accommodations tax revenues, if it passes ordinances relating to transient accommodations and short-term vacation rentals that establish specified real property taxes, and expedited special use permit processing, violation processing, and appeal processing, and complies with notification requirements; and
(2) Appropriating $4,000,000 of transient accommodations tax revenues to assist the counties in enforcing the required transient accommodations ordinances.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the length of stay at a short-term vacation rental which a county must enact ordinances to regulate in order to receive transient accommodations tax revenues for enforcement from thirty days to one-hundred eighty days;
(2) Inserting language establishing reporting requirements for a county receiving funds for the enforcement of all applicable laws and ordinances relating to transient accommodations and short-term vacation rentals; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 2605, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2605, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism,
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____________________________ RICHARD H.K. ONISHI, Chair |