Bill Text: HI HB840 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Liquor; Discounts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB840 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB840-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  668

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 840

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 840 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill as received by your Committee is to allow the provision of discounts for liquor purchases through coupons or mail-in rebates when made in combination with other merchandise.

 

     For the purposes of a public hearing, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 that inserts additional provisions that:

 

     (1)  Increase the various liquor tax rates; and

 

     (2)  Reduce the tax rate on the first 60,000 barrels of beer brewed or produced by small breweries and brewpubs.

 

     The Department of Taxation supported this bill.  Anheuser Busch Companies; Kona Brewing Co.; Distilled Spirits Council of the United States; Wine Institute; Anheuser Busch Sales of Hawaii, Inc.; Southern Wine & Spirits of Hawaii; Hilton Worldwide; Hawaii Food Industry Association; Hawaii Liquor Wholesalers Association; and numerous concerned individuals opposed this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii, MillerCoors, and several concerned individuals provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by adopting the proposed H.D. 1. 

 

     Your Committee has further amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the proposed increase on the various liquor taxes from a 50 percent increase to a 20 percent increase; 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. 840, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 840, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair