STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2280

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3059

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 3059 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the requirements to establish a quorum to do business and validate acts of the Stadium Authority.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Stadium Authority.

Your Committee finds that existing law relating to the Stadium Authority does not specify the requirements for establishing a quorum of the members or the number of votes necessary to adopt a measure. Your Committee further finds that the Stadium Authority has had issues in meeting the general quorum requirement set forth in section 92-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, due to vacancies of Stadium Authority members. This measure provides the needed clarity to ensure the Stadium Authority can conduct its important business.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting language to clarify that voting members of the Stadium Authority shall elect the Chairperson;

(2) Clarifying that a majority of the voting members currently serving on the Stadium Authority shall constitute a quorum and the concurrence of a majority of all voting members currently serving on the Stadium Authority shall be necessary to make any action valid; and

(3) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2060, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3059, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3059, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism,

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LYNN DECOITE, Chair