Bill Text: HI SB1261 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 1261 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Liquor Tax; Small Breweries and Brewpubs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-13 2:30PM in conference room 016. [SB1261 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1261-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1009

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2013

RE: S.B. No. 1261

S.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development & Business, to which was referred S.B. No. 1261, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR TAX LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist small businesses producing beer by reducing the gallonage tax on the first 60,000 barrels of beer brewed or produced during a taxable year by a small brewery or brewpub in the State to $0.23 per gallon of beer.

The Hawaiian Craft Brewers Guild, Maui Brewing Co., and Kauai Island Brewing testified in support of this measure. The Department of Taxation, Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and an individual provided comments on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1261, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development & Business,

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair