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Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs Committee, Hawaii State Senate (decommissioned)
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The Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs Committee was a standing committee of the Hawaii State Senate. It was formed for the 2013 session. This committee was created through the combination of the Hawaiian Affairs Committee and the Tourism Committee. It was broken into its former committees for the 2014 session.
Function
The 2013 Hawaii Senate rules described the function of this committee as outlined below.
| “ | The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to tourism and Hawaiian affairs, including but not limited to, the Hawai‘i Convention Center, Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau, the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaiian home lands, sovereignty, and burial councils.[1][2] | ” |
Committee members
2013-2014
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2013 legislative session.
| Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs Members, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (1) | |||
| • Brickwood Galuteria, Chair | • Samuel Slom | |||
| • Gilbert Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair | ||||
| • Clayton Hee | ||||
| • Gilbert Kahele | ||||
| • Michelle Kidani | ||||
| • Maile Shimabukuro | ||||
| • Malama Solomon | ||||
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Hawaii State Legislature, "Senate Rules," accessed January 17, 2014(Section 21-12)
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
