Bill Text: HI SB165 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Taxation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. [SB165 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-SB165-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

165

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO TAXATION.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to allow for additional uses of the general excise tax surcharge revenues for counties with a population equal to or less than five hundred thousand.

     SECTION 2.  Section 46-16.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:

     "(f)  Each county with a population equal to or less than five hundred thousand that adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance pursuant to this section shall use no less than fifty per cent of the surcharges received from the State for:

     (1)  Operating or capital costs of public transportation within each county for public transportation systems, including public roadways or highways, public buses, trains, ferries, pedestrian paths or sidewalks, or bicycle paths; and

     (2)  Expenses in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with respect to paragraph (1)."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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By Request


 


 

Report Title:

County of Hawaii Package; General Excise Tax; County Surcharge on State Tax

 

Description:

Broadens the purposes for which a county with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopts a surcharge on the state general excise tax, may use surcharge revenues.

 

 

 

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