STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1334

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1756

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1756 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTY CONCESSIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the counties to exempt nonprofit corporations from the fifteen year limit on the grant of county concessions or concession space.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Maui and the County Council of the County of Maui.

     Your Committee finds that the Maui County Council's Parks and Economic Development Committee recently conducted lengthy deliberations regarding problems associated with the existing fifteen-year limit on county leases to nonprofit organizations and found that limited leases often prohibit worthy nonprofit organizations from securing grants that are needed to fund capital improvement projects. 

     As such, it is the intent of your Committee to assist nonprofit organizations to secure grant funds and perform capital improvements for programs that provide substantial community benefits by authorizing counties to exempt nonprofit corporations from the fifteen-year limit on the grant of county concessions or concession space.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1756, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair