STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1518

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 1518 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that a member of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Tourism Authority shall serve as a holdover until a successor is appointed by the Governor and repeals the successor's requirement for Senate confirmation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority.

Your Committee finds that existing law allows a member of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Tourism Authority to remain on the Board as a holdover until a successor is appointed and qualified. Your Committee believes that clarifying that a member can serve as a holdover until a successor is appointed by the Governor, without need for Senate confirmation, will ensure that the Board can operate in a more efficient and timely manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

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. 1518, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1518, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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SEAN QUINLAN, Chair