Bill Text: HI SB1272 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transient Accommodations Tax; Tourism Special Fund; Distribution

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-30 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB1272 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1272-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1203

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1272

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1272, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to redistribute the allocation of Transient Accommodations Tax moneys deposited into the Tourism Special Fund (TSF) by:

 

     (1)  Changing the base aggregate amount available for distribution from TSF from $1,000,000 to an unspecified amount;

 

     (2)  Changing the percentages of the base aggregate amount to be deposited into the:

 

          (A)  State Parks Special Fund from 90 percent to an unspecified percentage; and

 

          (B)  Special Land and Development Fund from 10 percent to an unspecified percentage;

 

          and

 

     (3)  Directing that an unspecified percentage of the base aggregate amount be deposited into the Pest Inspection, Quarantine, and Eradication Fund.

 

     The Hawaii Tourism Authority, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and Hawaii Hotel and Lodging Association opposed this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Tax Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.

 

     Your Committees have 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 records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1272, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1272, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs and Agriculture,

 

 

____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair		____________________________ JOEY MANAHAN, Chair