Bill Text: HI SB2969 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Early Learning System Funding; Income Tax Refund Check-Off

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 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). [SB2969 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2969-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2203

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2969

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2969 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Taxation to allow a taxpayer to designate a specified amount of the taxpayer's income tax refund to be paid to the early learning trust fund.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Early Learning Council, and Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Taxation.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Good Beginnings Alliance and Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure adds the early learning trust fund to the growing number of programs for which taxpayers may designate a portion of their income tax refund.  However, this measure also provides a creative way to allow individuals to support early learning in the State.  As such, your Committee believes that further discussion on this measure is warranted.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2969 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

		____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair