STAND. COM. REP. NO. 543

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 20
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs and Economic Development, to which was referred S.C.R.
No. 20 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES
     CONGRESS TO EXPAND AND MAKE PERMANENT THE TEMPORARY VISA
     WAIVER PROGRAM ESTABLISHED UNDER THE IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND
     REFORM ACT OF 1986,"

beg leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to urge the United States
Congress to exert efforts to make the visa waiver program
permanent and to add Taiwan and South Korea to the program.

     No testimony was submitted on this measure.

     Your Committees find that the temporary visa waiver program
expired in September 1996, and has been extended on a year-to-
year basis, with the present extension to expire in September
1999.

     Your Committees believe a permanent visa waiver program is
vital to Hawaii's tourism industry and the addition of Taiwan and
South Korea would further boost Asian tourism.  Your Committees
have amended this measure to make a technical, nonsubstantive
amendment.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs and

 
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Economic Development that are attached to this report, your
Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 20,
as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form
attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 20, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs
                                   and Economic Development,



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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair          CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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