| HI | SCR184 | Engross | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Convene A Working Group To Produce An Integrated Strategic Plan For Regional Engagement By The State Of Hawaii In The Pacific Islands Region.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
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| HI | SCR72 | Engross | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development And Tourism To Establish A Working Group To Develop Funding Sources For Rural Broadband Improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
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| HI | HCR136 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands To Convene A Working Group To Study The Feasibility Of Operating Casino Gaming Facilities On Commercially Zoned Land Under The Department's Jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
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| HI | HR116 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands To Convene A Working Group To Study The Feasibility Of Operating Casino Gaming Facilities On Commercially Zoned Land Under The Department's Jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
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| HI | HR107 | Intro | Urging Dbedt To Create A Business Rescue And Survival Division To Begin Saving Or Restructuring Businesses Like Love's Bakery Before They Close.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
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| HI | SB565 | Engross | Expands the definition of "beer" to specify an alcohol by volume of no less than 0.5 per cent and to include alcoholic seltzer beverages. Effective January 1, 2022. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
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| HI | SB56 | Engross | Increases the personal income tax rate for high earners for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020. Increases the tax on capital gains. Increases the corporate income tax and establishes a single corporate income tax rate. From 7/1/2021 through 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
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| HI | SB645 | Engross | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for affordable and workforce housing infrastructure. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
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| HI | SB787 | Engross | Requires that revenue estimates provided by the department of taxation to the legislature or to any executive or administrative office be accompanied by a description of the methodology used and assumptions made in providing the estimate. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
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| HI | SB1033 | Engross | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Stadium Authority for payroll and other expenses. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
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| HI | SB911 | Engross | Clarifies existing, and establishes new, grant application process and eligibility requirements for organizations, including nonprofit organizations, that may receive a grant from the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
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| HI | SB193 | Engross | Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have a gender-diverse board of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and penalties. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
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| HI | HCR56 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Conduct A Study On The Potential Revenue To Be Generated For The State Through The Legalization And Regulation Of Recreational Cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
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| HI | HR45 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Conduct A Study On The Potential Revenue To Be Generated For The State Through The Legalization And Regulation Of Recreational Cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
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| HI | SB662 | Engross | Requires that new income tax credits established or renewed after 12/31/2021 include a 5-year sunset or an annual reduction. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
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| HI | HB1170 | Intro | Establishes the state venture capital program that provides venture capital investments in early stage small businesses in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
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| HI | HB383 | Intro | Establishes a state poker commission to oversee the licensing and operation of specified gaming activities in the State, including live poker rooms. Designates as commissioners the respective directors of business, economic development, and tourism; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
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| HI | HB736 | Intro | Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law. Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
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| HI | HB772 | Intro | Grants 10-year license for 1 stand-alone, members-only casino in Waikiki, not in a hotel. Allows guests 21 years of age or older who register to stay 1 day and night at a hotel on Oahu for each day of admission at $20-per-day pass. Establishes the Ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
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| HI | HB461 | Intro | Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include inner packaging or wrapping labels. Requires coffee blend labels to disclose geographic and regional origins with the percent by weight of each origin. Clarifies that the use of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
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| HI | HB1175 | Intro | Establishes the micro enterprise assistance program on Hawaiian home lands revolving fund to provide grants and loans through the implementation of the micro enterprise assistance program to qualified native Hawaiians, native Hawaiian-controlled home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| HI | HB359 | Intro | Grants forty-year gaming license for a single integrated resort property on Hawaiian home lands designated for commercial use on the island of Oahu excluding lands west of Ko Olina. Establishes Hawaii Gaming Commission. Imposes wagering tax on gross ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| HI | HB292 | Intro | Establishes a one-time amnesty program for liabilities for taxable years beginning on or transactions occurring on or after 01/01/2010 through taxable periods ending on or transactions occurring on 12/31/2020. Specifies that the amnesty period begins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-04
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| HI | HB1188 | Intro | Provides a one-year exemption to any business demonstrating they were dependent on county, state, or federal funding to sustain them during state mandated closures. Business may only qualify for this exemption once.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-04
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| HI | HB263 | Intro | Allows direct shipment of all forms of liquor, rather than just wine, by certain licensees. Requires the county liquor commissions to adopt rules and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03
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| HI | HB836 | Intro | Establishes a telework tax credit for employers who allow telework for at least thirty per cent of their employees. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03
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| HI | HB682 | Intro | Establishes a task force in the department of taxation to discuss the need to rebalance and repurpose the tax programs created by the general excise tax, income tax, and property tax laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
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| HI | HB850 | Intro | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the department of the attorney general. Exempts registered online fantasy sports contests from state gambling laws. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
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| HI | HB363 | Intro | Establishes the Hawaii lottery and gaming corporation for the purpose of conducting gambling in Hawaii. Allocates proceeds to capital improvements at public schools and the University of Hawaii system, scholarships and educational loan repayments for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
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| HI | HB457 | Intro | Establishes a task force within the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study and recommend to the legislature the feasibility of authorizing controlled legalized gambling in the State, including offshore gambling and a state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
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| HI | HB3 | Intro | Increases the personal income tax rate and implements a rate recapture mechanism that phases out lower tax brackets for high earners for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020. Increases the tax on capital gains. Increases the corporate income tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
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| HI | HB1205 | Intro | Requires a public investment fund to develop, publish, and implement socially responsible investment policies applicable to the management of all public funds under the public investment fund's control and submit an annual report to the legislature o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1168 | Intro | Short form bill relating to the economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1156 | Intro | Removes the cap on the amount that may be claimed per qualified production. Removes the limit for the total amount of tax credits allowed per year for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1103 | Intro | Establishes an implementation board to review, investigate, and study the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1153 | Intro | Authorizes a GET exemption for businesses investing more than $500,000 over a 10-year period and creating a minimum of 50 job positions for the purpose of business development at Barbers Point in the Kalaeloa opportunity zone. Establishes a tax credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1307 | Intro | Establishes the commission on fiscal responsibility within the department of taxation to review and make recommendations on expenditures, revenue enhancements, and tax policy. Requires a report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1396 | Intro | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to authorize the legislature to make amendments to the management of Hawaiian home lands. Prohibits the construction and operation of casino gaming and wagering on Hawaiian home lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1293 | Intro | Establishes a remote work transition grant program within DBEDT to assist businesses in converting to virtual offices or building remote work capabilities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1077 | Intro | Requires publicly held domestic corporations to include nonmale and nonfemale individuals among the directors of their corporate board. Establishes reporting requirements for the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1303 | Intro | Authorizes entities having a common interest and purpose to organize as general cooperatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1074 | Intro | Transfers for administrative purposes only the Commission for National and Community Service from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Adds a representative from each county mayor?s office to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1177 | Intro | Increases the amount of tax credit allowable for household and dependent care services from $2,400 to $4,800 for a qualifying individual and from $4,800 to $9,600 for two or more qualifying individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1368 | Intro | Removes the cap on the amount that may be claimed per qualified production. Removes the limit for the total amount of tax credits allowed per year for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Deducts a percentage to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1145 | Intro | Requires that new income tax credits include a 5-year sunset or a gradual reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1393 | Intro | Grants the Stadium Authority the ability to sell naming rights to Aloha Stadium and its facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1171 | Intro | Short form bill relating to taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1289 | Intro | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist HK Management, LLC, in planning, designing, constructing, reconstructing, renovating, acquiring, equipping, and improving surf industry center facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1097 | Intro | Amends the name of the certificate of good standing issued by the department of commerce and consumer affairs to "certificate of registration."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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| HI | HB1268 | Intro | Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
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