STAND. COM. REP. NO.  703-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2187

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2187, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve Hawaii's tourism industry and the administration of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing HTA to maintain confidentiality of certain sensitive information;

 

     (2)  Directing HTA to develop program performance goals and targets that can be monitored as market gauges and used as attributes to evaluate their promotions;

 

     (3)  Conforming reporting requirements for contracts or agreements entered into by HTA to current practices; and

 

     (4)  Making permanent statutory provisions that exempted HTA accounts from the supervision of the Comptroller and authorized the use of up to five percent of moneys in the Tourism Special Fund (TSF) for administrative expenses.

 

     HTA and Hawaii Hotel and Lodging Association supported this bill.  The Tourism Liaison and Office of Information practices provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Adding provisions that allow marketing information to be disclosed after the marketing plans and strategies are executed;

 

     (2)  Specifying that HTA executive meetings must adhere to the Sunshine Law under Chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (3)  Extending, instead of making permanent, statutory provisions that exempted HTA accounts from the supervision of the Comptroller and authorized the use of up to five percent of moneys in the TSF for administrative expenses; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2187, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2187, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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JOEY MANAHAN, Chair