STAND. COM. REP. NO.2262

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2890

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2890 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to permit time sharing on properties where an existing hotel is a valid non-conforming use under county ordinance.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Tourism Authority, a Member of the Honolulu City Council, Hawaii Hotel Association, American Resort Development Association, Roberts Hawaii, Acquisition Research Corporation, and one individual. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting testified in opposition.

Your Committee finds that time sharing has remained one of the few positive aspects of the visitor industry since the terrorists attacks of September 11, and their devastating effect on travel.

Your Committee is supportive of efforts to allow further development of this valuable industry. Your Committee has amended this measure to provide that in counties with a population over 500,000, the hotel must have at least sixty units and forty per cent of the units must be apartments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2890, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2890, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair