Bill Text: HI SB2179 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs Package; Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Program; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima, Pine, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2179 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2179-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1121-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2179

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEDERAL EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Taxation to coordinate an outreach initiative to raise awareness of the federal earned income tax credit among eligible taxpayers.  This measure also makes an unspecified appropriation for this purpose.

 

     The Department of Human Services, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii Alliance for Community Based Economic Development, the Hawaii State Democratic Women's Caucus, and several individuals from the Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly supported this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii commented on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, 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 Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair