Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 1040 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure, as received, is to amend the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to transient accommodations tax. As amended, this measure provides that the transient accommodations tax revenues for the Hawaii statewide trail and access program be deposited into the special land and development fund from which expenditures for the trail and access program can be made.

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 action to report out S.B. No. 1040 as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be recommitted to the Committees on Tourism and Ways and Means in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1040, S.D. 1, for further consideration.