Bill Text: HI HB719 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Motor Vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-27 - Referred to TRN, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 1 [HB719 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB719-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to motor vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 39-94, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§39-94 Arrangement of statements and schedules and forms; incorporation. In preparing the statements and supporting schedules required by this part, the director of finance may arrange, group, and set forth such information and figures in such manner as the director deems necessary or advisable. Such information and figures need not be set out or arranged in the same order as is set forth in this part, so long as the information and figures required by this part are set forth.
All findings certified to in accordance with this part shall be deemed to be incorporated into subsequent statements and supporting schedules to the extent relevant thereto. Such findings need not be made again in any subsequent statement or supporting schedule, nor need the legal and financial basis for such findings be set forth again.
The state
highway system established in part III of chapter 264 shall be deemed to be a
public system that produces revenues and user tax receipts. All liquid fuel taxes as defined in section
243-1, other than taxes on aviation fuel as defined in that section, [and
all vehicle weight taxes as defined in section 249-33] which are paid into
the state highway fund created by section 248-8 and which are not required by
sections 243-6 and 248-9 to be paid to the counties shall be deemed to be user
taxes derived in the utilization of the functions and services furnished by the
state highway system.
Amounts received from the federal government for the payment or reimbursement of costs of operation, maintenance, and repair of a public undertaking, improvement, or system or for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds issued for such public undertaking, improvement, or system, and for the payment or reimbursement of costs of administering, operating, and maintaining a loan program or for the payment of subsidies for a loan program, may be considered and treated as revenues of such undertaking, improvement, system, or loan program. If such amounts are deposited in the general fund immediately upon their receipt by the State, such amounts shall be deducted from the general fund revenues when determining the net general fund revenues for the purposes of this part, to the extent such amounts are utilized to justify or support a determination that bonds of the State may be excluded when determining the total outstanding indebtedness of the State for the purposes of section 13 of Article VII of the Constitution.
The director of finance may compose and adopt and have printed or otherwise reproduced any forms the director deems will facilitate the preparation and understanding of statements and supporting schedules required by this part.
All
departments, boards, authorities, and officers of the State shall cooperate with
the director of finance to the extent required to enable the director to
prepare the statements and supporting schedules required by this part."
SECTION 2. Section 249-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) [All]
Except as otherwise provided in sections 249-4, 249-6, and 249-31.5, all commercial
motor vehicles in the State that are used to transport property and weigh more
than ten thousand one pounds shall be subject to a $150 annual vehicle registration
fee, and all other vehicles and motor vehicles in the State, as
defined in section 249-1, including antique motor vehicles, [except as
otherwise provided in sections 249-4, 249-6, and 249-31.5,] electric vehicles,
and alternative fuel vehicles, shall be subject to a [$45] $100
annual vehicle registration fee[; provided that electric vehicles and
alternative fuel vehicles shall pay an annual vehicle registration surcharge
fee of $50, which shall be assessed and collected beginning with the first registration
renewal for every electric vehicle and alternative fuel vehicle and shall be
deposited into the state highway fund established under section 248-8.],
regardless of weight. The fee shall
be paid each year together with all other taxes and fees levied by this chapter
on a staggered basis as established by each county as authorized by section
286-51, and the state registration for that county shall likewise be staggered
so that the state registration fee is due and payable at the same time and shall
be collected together with the county fee.
The state registration fee shall be deemed delinquent if not paid with
the county registration fee. The
respective counties shall collect this fee together with the vehicle
registration tax collected for the county and shall transfer the moneys
collected under this section to the State."
SECTION 3. Section 249-34, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§249-34
Delinquent penalties; seizure and sale for tax and fee. Any tax or fee imposed under [sections]
section 249-31 [and 249-33] for any year and not paid when due
shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 249-10."
SECTION 4. Section 249-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.
["§249-33 State vehicle weight
tax, exemptions. (a) All vehicles and motor vehicles in the State
as defined in section 249-1, including antique motor vehicles, except as
otherwise provided in sections 249-4, 249-5.5, 249-6, and 249-6.5, in addition
to all other fees and taxes levied by this chapter, shall be subject to an
annual state vehicle weight tax. The tax
shall be levied by the county director of finance at the rate of 1.75 cents a
pound according to the net weight of each vehicle as the "net weight"
is defined in section 249-1 up to and including four thousand pounds net
weight; vehicles over four thousand pounds and up to and including seven
thousand pounds net weight shall be taxed at the rate of 2.00 cents a pound;
vehicles over seven thousand pounds and up to and including ten thousand pounds
net weight shall be taxed at the rate of 2.25 cents a pound; vehicles over ten
thousand pounds net weight shall be taxed at a flat rate of $300.
(b) The tax shall become due and payable in each
year together with all other taxes and fees levied by this chapter on a
staggered basis as established by each county as authorized by section 286-51,
the state vehicle weight tax shall likewise be staggered so that the state
vehicle weight tax is collected together with the county fee. The state vehicle weight tax shall be deemed
delinquent if not paid with the county registration fee. The tax shall be paid by the owner of each
vehicle to the director of finance of the county in which the vehicle is
registered and shall be collected by the director of finance of such county
together with all other fees and taxes levied by this chapter from the owner of
each vehicle and motor vehicle registered in the county.
By the fifteenth day of the month
following the month in which taxes under this section are collected, the
director of finance of each county shall transmit the taxes collected to the
state director of finance for deposit into the state highway fund.
(c) The exemptions provided by sections 249-3 to
249-6 shall apply to this section. The
provisions for refunds, and taxes for fraction of years for vehicles removed
from or brought into the State and for junked vehicles, contained in sections
249-3 and 249-5 shall apply to the tax levied by this section.
(d) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the department
of transportation of the State, based upon proper records and from such other
evidence as the department of transportation may require, that any vehicle with
a net vehicle weight of six thousand pounds or over is used for agricultural
purposes the owner thereof may obtain a refund of all taxes thereon imposed by
this section. The department of
transportation shall prescribe rules to administer such refunds.
(e) The counties shall be reimbursed the incremental
costs incurred in the collection and administration of taxes and fees imposed
under section 249-31 and this section; the amount of reimbursement shall be
determined by the director of transportation."]
SECTION 5. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 6. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2021.
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Report Title:
Motor Vehicles; Registration Fees; State Vehicle Weight Tax
Description:
Establishes fixed state registration fees of $150 for all commercial motor vehicles of a certain weight that are used for transporting property and $100 for all other vehicles and motor vehicles in the State. Repeals the state vehicle weight tax.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
