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. 248 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to the Convention Center.

Your Committee has amended the measure by inserting substantive provisions that repeal the $31,000,000 balance ceiling for the Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund.

Your Committee recommends that the measure be recommitted following second reading so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

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. 248, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 248, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Tourism, for further consideration.