STAND. COM. REP. NO. 135

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1013
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No.
1013 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII
     TOURISM AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide emergency funding for
the Tourism Special Fund (Fund), which was established by Act
156, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 1998, for use by the Hawaii
Tourism Authority (HTA).

     The HTA and the Hawaii Hotel Association submitted testimony
in strong support of this measure.

     Your Committee notes that the HTA was to be funded through
the Fund effective January 1, 1999.  However, appropriation for
the Fund was inadvertently omitted from legislation passed during
the 1998 Regular Session.  Your Committee finds that while Act
156, SLH 1998, established the Fund, neither Act 116, SLH 1998
(Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1998), nor Act 156, SLH 1998,
appropriated moneys for expenditure by HTA.

     Not until an appropriation is passed by the Legislature this
session can HTA, by law, encumber or expend moneys from the Fund
for its programs during the second half of the 1998-1999 fiscal
year.  This bill is necessary to accomplish this purpose.


 
 
 
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     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.
1013 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   JERRY L. CHANG, Chair