Bill Text: HI SB3348 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB3348 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB3348-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Reduce the cost of basic transportation for local families;
(2) Incentivize a reduction in wear and tear on roads;
(3) Build safer infrastructure to reduce deaths and injuries, particularly from larger vehicles that are far more dangerous to pedestrians and lead to more deaths and serious injuries than smaller vehicles in the State; and
(4) Ensure that individuals who have the biggest impact on transportation infrastructure financially contribute accordingly.
SECTION 2. Section 249-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) All vehicles and motor vehicles
in the State as defined in section 249-1, including antique motor vehicles,
except as otherwise provided in sections 249-4, 249-6, and 249‑31.5, shall be subject to a [$46]
$ annual vehicle registration fee;
provided that alternative fuel vehicles shall pay an annual vehicle
registration surcharge of [$50,] $ , which shall be assessed and
collected beginning with the first registration renewal for every alternative
fuel vehicle and shall be deposited into the state highway fund established
under section 248-8. The surcharge shall
be paid each year together with all other taxes and fees levied by this chapter
on a staggered basis as established by each county as authorized by section 286-51,
and the state registration for that county shall likewise be staggered so that
the state registration fee is due and payable at the same time and shall be
collected together with the county fee.
The state registration fee shall be deemed delinquent if not paid with
the county registration fee. The
respective counties shall collect this fee together with the vehicle
registration tax collected for the county and shall transfer the moneys collected
under this section to the State.
For the purposes of this subsection, "alternative fuel vehicle" means a vehicle powered by a non-petroleum-based fuel, but excludes an electric vehicle as defined in section 249‑36(g)."
SECTION 3. Section 249-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a)
All vehicles and motor vehicles in the State as defined in section
249-1, including antique motor vehicles, except as otherwise provided in
sections 249-4, 249-5.5, 249-6, and 249-6.5, in addition to all other fees and
taxes levied by this chapter, shall be subject to an annual state vehicle
weight tax. The tax shall be levied by
the county director of finance at the rate of [1.75]
cents a pound according to the net weight of each vehicle as the "net
weight" is defined in section 249-1 up to and including four thousand
pounds net weight; vehicles over four thousand pounds and up to and including
seven thousand pounds net weight shall be taxed at the rate of [2.00]
cents a pound; vehicles over seven thousand pounds and up to and including ten
thousand pounds net weight shall be taxed at the rate of [2.25]
cents a pound; vehicles over ten thousand pounds net weight shall be taxed at a
flat rate of [$300.] $ ."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Transportation; State Vehicle Weight Tax; State Registration Fees
Description:
Changes the state registration fee and the state vehicle weight tax amounts.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
