Bill Text: HI HB560 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Veterans Services; Liquor Taxation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB560 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB560-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  774

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 560

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 560, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support veterans of the armed services in Hawaii by establishing the Veterans' Services Special Fund, funded by an unspecified Veterans' Services Tax on liquor.

 

     The Office of Veterans' Services supported this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance, Anheuser Busch Companies, and Wine Institute opposed this measure.  The Department of Taxation and Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to                    encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 560, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 560, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair