STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1553-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.C.R. No. 204

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Tourism, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 204 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY TO COLLABORATE WITH THE HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT, HONOLULU FIELD OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, AND THE HAWAII FUSION CENTER TO CONDUCT A VULNERABILITY STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AREAS IN THE STATE THAT SHOULD BE PROTECTED BY DECORATIVE BOLLARDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the Hawaii Tourism Authority to collaborate with the Honolulu Police Department, Honolulu Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Hawaii Fusion Center to conduct a vulnerability study and make recommendations for areas in the State that should be protected by decorative bollards to ensure public safety and prevent motor vehicles from driving onto sidewalks.

The State Department of Defense and Honolulu Police Department supported this measure. The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Adding the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau and its affiliated island chapters, and the Waikiki Improvement Association as participants in the vulnerability study;

(2) Amending the title of the concurrent resolution to: "URGING THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY TO COLLABORATE WITH THE HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT, HONOLULU FIELD OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, THE HAWAII FUSION CENTER, HAWAII LODGING AND TOURISM ASSOCIATION, HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU AND ITS AFFILIATED ISLAND CHAPTERS, AND THE WAIKIKI IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION TO CONDUCT A VULNERABILITY STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AREAS IN THE STATE THAT SHOULD BE PROTECTED BY DECORATIVE BOLLARDS"; and

(3) Adding that certified copies of the concurrent resolution be transmitted to the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, and the President of the Waikiki Improvement Association.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Tourism that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 204, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 204, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Tourism,

____________________________ RICHARD H.K. ONISHI, Chair

____________________________ GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair