STAND. COM. REP. NO. 878

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 753
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
753, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL
     IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the counties to
create special improvement districts by ordinance to provide and
finance supplemental maintenance and security services and other
improvements, services, and facilities that the respective county
councils determine will restore or promote business activity in
the district.

     The Office of Planning, the City and County of Honolulu,
Louis Vuitton Hawaii, the General Manager of the Sheraton
Princess Kaiulani Hotel and Chair of the Waikiki Improvement
Association, Outrigger Enterprises, Larry K. Fukunaga &
Associates, the Waikiki Improvement Association, the Land Use
Research Foundation of Hawaii, and the Joint Waikiki Task Force
testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting references to the procurement and civil
          service laws with regard to the provision of services
          under the special improvement districts; and


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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
753, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 753, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair