STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1122-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2673

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 2673, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAVEL AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a travel agency that sells activities individually or as part of a tour package to register with the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs as an activity desk.

Valley Isle Excursions, Inc.; Activities and Attractions Association of Hawaii; and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2120, to promote further discussion.

     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 intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2673, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2673, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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TOM BROWER, Chair