Bill Text: HI SB2969 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2761
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2969
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, 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 provide funding for early learning programs of the State.
Specifically, the measure authorizes:
(1) Taxpayers to designate $25 of their state tax refund be paid to the early learning trust fund; and
(2) The early learning trust fund to accept payments from income tax refunds.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Early Learning Council. Your Committee received comments from the Department of Human Services; Tax Foundation of Hawaii; and Good Beginnings Alliance.
Your Committee finds that the Early Learning Council is entrusted with developing and administering the State's early learning system for prenatal to kindergarten children known as Keiki First Steps. Authorizing taxpayers to designate $25 of their state tax refund be paid to the early learning trust fund will assist the Early Learning Council in meeting its funding needs.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the taxable year for which this bill applies to years beginning after July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and
(2) Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment to conform with recommended drafting conventions.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2969, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2969, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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