Bill Text: HI SB1110 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-21 - Re-Referred to EET, WAM. [SB1110 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-SB1110-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1110

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, ENERGY, AND FOOD SECURITY TAX.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to change the amount of the current barrel tax that shall be deposited into the environmental response revolving fund from five cents of the current one dollar and five cent tax on each barrel to fifteen cents in order to support environmental hazards evaluation and emergency response activities twenty four hours a day, and other environmental and natural resource protection programs including but not limited to air quality, clean water, solid and hazardous waste, and underground storage tanks, all of which may impact the state's natural environment and public health.

     SECTION 2.  Section 243-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  In addition to any other taxes provided by law, subject to the exemptions set forth in section 243-7, there is hereby imposed a state environmental response, energy, and food security tax on each barrel or fractional part of a barrel of petroleum product sold by a distributor to any retail dealer or end user of petroleum product, other than a refiner.  The tax shall be $1.05 on each barrel or fractional part of a barrel of petroleum product that is not aviation fuel; provided that of the tax collected pursuant to this subsection:

     (1)  [5] 15 cents of the tax on each barrel shall be deposited into the environmental response revolving fund established under section 128D-2;

     (2)  15 cents of the tax on each barrel shall be deposited into the energy security special fund established under section 201-12.8;

     (3)  10 cents of the tax on each barrel shall be deposited into the energy systems development special fund established under section [[]304A-2169.1[]]; and

     (4)  15 cents of the tax on each barrel shall be deposited into the agricultural development and food security special fund established under section 141-10.

     The tax imposed by this subsection shall be paid by the distributor of the petroleum product."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on July 1, 2015.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST


 


 

Report Title:

Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax

 

Description:

Changes the amount of the tax that shall be deposited into the Environmental Response Revolving Fund from five cents on each barrel to fifteen cents on each barrel to support environmental activities and programs.

 

 

 

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