Bill Text: HI HB2445 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Tourism Authority; Marketing; Autonomy

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-17 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. [HB2445 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2445-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2737

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2445

       H.D. 2

       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 Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 2445, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purposes of this measure are 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.

 

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, and Hawai‘i Hotel & Lodging Association.  The Office of Information Practices submitted comments.

 

Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

Your Committee finds that this measure will allow the Hawaii Tourism Authority to function more effectively in an increasing competitive global tourism market, a key component in rebuilding Hawaii's vital tourism industry.

 

     Your Committee has replaced the contents of this measure with one previously heard and approved by your Committee, S.B. No. 2187, S.D. 1.  As amended, this measure:

 

     (1)  Clarifies that information relating to marketing plans and strategies may be disclosed after the execution of the marketing plans and strategies;

 

     (2)  Requires periodic, rather than quarterly, reports of the Authority's contracts and agreements;

 

     (3)  Changes the effective date from January 1, 2112, to July 1, 2010; and

 

     (4)  Makes technical amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2445, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2445, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

		____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair