| HI | HB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB2747 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Filmmakers Special Fund for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to award grants for film, media, and creative industries intellectual property development projects in Hawaii. Repeals the Hawaii Film and Creative Industries De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| HI | HB1707 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the amount of total income tax credits available. Provides the State with alternative marketing opportunities in lieu of a shared-card, end-title screen credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | HB2360 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawai`i Film Advisory Council within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Provides exemption for certified development of film studio facilities from taxes imposed under chapter 237, HRS. Amends the Motion Pict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a 10-year license for one entity to operate online poker and sportsbook betting. Establishes the Hawaii gaming control commission. Imposes wagering tax on gross receipts. Creates the state gaming fund and compulsive gambler assistance prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2260 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a 10-year license for 1 poker and sportsbook gaming facility in a special district designated for tourism in a county with over 500,000 residents and that is not in a hotel. Allows admission for individuals 21 years of age or older. Establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2272 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a state lottery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB1992 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to post the business address and business phone number of each licensed professional on its public website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2126 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for small businesses who provide bonuses for their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1743 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that if a broker-dealer is subject to a more restrictive standard than under the federal Regulation Best Interest standard, the more restrictive standard shall apply. Allows certain investment advisor representatives to use other continuing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1910 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a telework tax credit for small business employers who allow telework for at least 30% of their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1711 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows designation of eligible homestead lots as enterprise zones for a period of twenty years. Provides state and local incentives to qualified businesses on homestead lots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1738 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Taxation, in consultation with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to study the feasibility of replacing the income and general excise taxes with a new retail sales tax or other tax. Requires the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1709 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Creates a program in partnership with the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1909 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Maui small business rent subsidization grant program to assist small businesses displaced by the 2023 Maui wildfires to pay rent at new locations on Maui. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1618 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently excludes businesses within a federally designated opportunity zone from required unemployment insurance contributions and temporarily excludes those businesses from general excise and income tax for five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1625 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the scope of state enterprise law by amending the definition of "eligible business activity" to include the private practice of medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2114 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows greater flexibility in conditions placed on eligibility requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Amends the amount of the total tax credit that may be claimed per qualified production. Amends t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an entrepreneurship grant program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to assist entrepreneurs with new businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for the regulation of sports wagering by the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators and sports wagering suppliers. Specifies that sports wagering shall not be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the president of the University of Hawaii system and the superintendent of the department of education, or their designees, voting members of the stadium authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases personal income tax revenues for high earning taxpayers by establishing new income tax brackets and rates that are applied against a broader level of taxable income for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts food products from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the exclusive power of the counties to exercise the functions, powers, and duties related to real property taxation, thereby authorizing the State to also exercise those functions, powe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to economic development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Stadium Authority to sell the naming rights to Aloha Stadium and its facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB939 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the individual housing account laws to increase the contribution levels and maximum account levels. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a grant program to assist persons who use albizia trees to create usable commercial products or are developing ways to use albizia trees to create usable products. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all businesses engaged in the sale of goods to include the amount of general excise tax owed in any display or tag indicating the price of the goods. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB624 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreases the tax burden on lower income workers by reducing the income tax rate to zero for all but top brackets of income earned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Corporate Income Tax Statues as a means of encouraging business investment and growth in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Specifies that amounts collected from the disallowance be evenly divided and deposited into the dwelling unit revolving fund and rental housing revolving fund. Applies to taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB787 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces, then later exempts, the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts foods and medical services products from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1494 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies requirements for film productions with production expenditures of $1,000,000 or more claiming the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Increases the annual cap from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 for the total a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a job creation income tax credit for employers who increase the number of full-time employees in the State and make certain capital investment expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriation for staffing, commissioner inter-island travel, and other related operating expenses associated with the small business regulatory review board under the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the refundable food/excise tax credit and makes the credit nonrefundable. Authorizes the Department of Taxation to issue the tax credit to taxpayers annually rather than requiring taxpayers to file for the credit. Applies to taxable years beg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that in calculating whether a product labeled "Made in Hawaii" has met the requirement that at least fifty-one per cent of the wholesale value of the product is added by manufacture, processing, or production within the State, operating and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Space Corporation to develop a spaceport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the standard deduction amounts for taxpayers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022. Requires biannual increases to the standard deduction amounts to match any increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for Ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all businesses engaged in the sale of goods to include the amount of general excise tax owed in any display or tag indicating the price of the goods. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the personal exemption for taxable income years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the personal exemption to be increased biannually based on any increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for Honolulu for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop a program to provide grants to match funds for hotel employees to buy hotels and establish employee-owned hotel cooperatives. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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