STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2565

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2187

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2187, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Authorize the Hawaii Tourism Authority to maintain the confidentiality of competitively sensitive information;

     (2)  Align performance goals with the Authority's strategic plan goals; and

     (3)  Preserve Hawaii Tourism Authority fiscal autonomy provisions of Act 58, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, as amended, by deleting repeal and reenactment provisions scheduled to take effect on June 30, 2010.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will allow the Hawaii Tourism Authority to withhold from public disclosure competitively sensitive information, including completed survey and questionnaire forms, coding sheets, and database records of the information, and keep confidential information gathered from visitors that is necessary for research.  The measure also clarifies the types of information the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Tourism Authority may consider in executive session, which is closed to the public.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2187, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair