STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1764

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 102

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 102, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESTAURANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit third-party restaurant reservation services from listing, advertising, promoting, or selling restaurant reservations without the express consent of the restaurant, enforceable through a private cause of action for civil remedies.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Restaurant Association; Booking Holdings, Inc.; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from American Express Company.

Your Committee finds that unauthorized third-party restaurant reservation services mislead consumers and create unnecessary burdens for restaurants. This measure addresses these issues by prohibiting third parties from listing or selling reservations without the restaurant's prior written consent and establishing a legal remedy for affected businesses.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 102, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 102, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair