Bill Text: HI HB394 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Gambling; Slot Machine; Video Poker Gambling; Constitutional Amendment

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB394 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB394-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  196

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 394

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 394 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO LEGALIZE SLOT MACHINE GAMBLING AND GAMBLING BY VIDEO POKER MACHINES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to propose a constitutional amendment to legalize slot machine and video poker gambling in designated resort areas on the island of Oahu.

 

     Paradise Cruise, Ltd. offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing the words "within Waikiki" throughout the bill       to expand the scope of possible locations for slot                machine and video poker gambling;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2015, to                    encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, and style.
     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. 394, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 394, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair