THE SENATE                           S.C.R. NO.            177
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                    SENATE  CONCURRENT
                        RESOLUTION

  REQUESTS THE GOVERNOR TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, AND STIMULATE
    PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION BUSINESSES ENGAGED IN THE TOURISM
    INDUSTRY.


 1        WHEREAS, private business is the foundation of our
 2   national and state economies, providing jobs for citizens and
 3   tax revenues for governments; and
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 5        WHEREAS, government must prioritize the use of tax
 6   revenues to the benefit of residents who are its constitutents
 7   rather than visitors who are not; and
 8   
 9        WHEREAS, it is extremely difficult for private business,
10   especially small business, to survive, much less thrive, in an
11   economic climate where the number of profit making companies
12   are actually on the decline and in an environment that promotes
13   ventures with prima facie unfair competitive advantages; and
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15        WHEREAS, it is inappropriate, however, for government to
16   use public moneys to subsidize ventures that directly compete
17   with the private sector, particularly those private
18   transportation companies providing transportation services to
19   visitors in Hawaii, because doing so undermines free enterprise
20   and inhibits private sector growth, which in turn decreases tax
21   revenues; and
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23        WHEREAS, in developing services for visitors, government
24   should look first to the private sector to provide that service
25   and provide incentives to encourage private business to
26   initiate and improve services for visitors in Hawaii; now,
27   therefore,
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29        BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twentieth Legislature
30   of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 1999, the House of
31   Representatives concurring, that the Governor is respectfully
32   requested to abide by the following policies:
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34        (1)  When government seeks to develop a transportation
35             service for visitors in Hawaii, the government shall

 
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 1             first determine whether the private transportation
 2             sector can provide that service;
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 4        (2)  Government shall encourage the private transportation
 5             sector to initiate new services and improve existing
 6             services for visitors in Hawaii, by providing
 7             business incentives to all private transportation
 8             companies;
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10        (3)  Government shall not engage in ventures utilizing
11             public moneys to provide services that can be found
12             or created in the private sector; and
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14        (4)  Government shall not compete with the private
15             transportation sector by granting exclusive monopoly
16             licenses to a single operator to provide
17             transportation services to visitors in Hawaii;
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19   and
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21        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this
22   Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor.
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