STAND. COM. REP. NO.  865

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 754

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 754, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reorganize the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) Board by removing the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Director of Transportation, Chairperson of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and placing them on a newly established advisory group to HTA.

     The Department of Transportation, Department of Land and Natural Resources, State foundation on Culture and the Arts, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and several concerned individuals opposed this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 754, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair