STAND. COM. REP. NO. 916

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1013
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, 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 measure is to appropriate $31,000,000 to
the Hawaii Tourism Authority for the period from January 1, 1999,
to June 30, 1999.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) and the Hawaii Hotel
Association.

     Your Committee finds that Act 156, Session Laws of Hawaii
1998, established the tourism special fund, but neither this Act
nor the Budget Act appropriated the moneys for expenditure by the
HTA.  The appropriation in this measure would provide funds for
tourism development and marketing through a variety of activities
approved by the HTA.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development 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 Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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