STAND. COM. REP. NO.840-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2709

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2709, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONVENTION CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Hawaii Convention Center to operate as a business by;

(1) Providing the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) the right to market, operate, manage, use, and maintain the Hawaii Convention Center;

(2) Establishing the Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund (Enterprise Special Fund);

(3) Establishing the Convention Center Facility Reserve Special Fund (Reserve Special Fund);

(4) Appropriating an unspecified amount out of the Enterprise Special Fund to be expended by the HTA for the purposes of this bill;

(5) Appropriating an unspecified amount out of the Enterprise Special Fund to be deposited into the Reserve Special Fund;

(6) Appropriating an unspecified amount out of the Reserve Special Fund for the purposes of this bill;

(7) Defining "convention center facility" and "convention center"; and

(8) Clarifying that the Convention Center Authority has been repealed as of June 30, 2000.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Hawaii Tourism Authority supported this measure. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting the following appropriation amounts:

(1) $40,300,000 out of the Enterprise Special Fund to be expended by the HTA for the purposes of this bill;

(2) $3,000,000 out of the Enterprise Special Fund to be deposited into the Reserve Special Fund; and

(3) $3,000,000 out of the Reserve Special Fund to be expended by the HTA for the purposes of this bill.

Your Committee has further amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2709, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2709, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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JERRY CHANG, Chair