| HI | SB125 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for Enterprise Zone Program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone that is to be used or consumed by the purchaser and not for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1043 | Intro
25% | Exempts the sale of groceries and nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1278 | Engross
50% | Exempts from the state general excise tax any grants received from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund by an eligible business pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Requires any state general excise taxes paid by eligible businesse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | HB1369 | Intro
25% | Repeals certain credits, deductions, and exemptions under the income tax, general excise tax, and use tax laws. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with Representative(s) Matsumoto, Perruso, Reyes Oda voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Muraoka, Shimizu, Souza voting no (5) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). |
| HI | SB1610 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Ohana Zones Program as a program within the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to exempt ohana zones projects from general excise taxes. Requires a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB1437 | Intro
25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption on the gross proceeds or gross income received from sales of commodities or services that benefit nonprofit schools. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1469 | Intro
25% | Suspends the statute of limitations on collections during the period an assessment is pending on appeal before the Taxation Board of Review or Tax Appeal Court. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1629 | Intro
25% | Increases the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit for qualified productions that utilize qualified production facilities located within the State. Changes the cap amount and aggregate cap amount of the motion picture,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1498 | Intro
25% | Increases the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit for qualified productions that utilize qualified production facilities located within the State. Changes the cap amount and aggregate cap amount of the motion picture,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1495 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a practitioner licensed to administer drugs to an individual, from the sale of hearing aids. Effective 12/31/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1444 | Intro
25% | Authorizes general excise tax exemptions for residential care services provided by certain licensed health care facilities pursuant to a contract with the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health. Effective 1/1/26. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB681 | Intro
25% | Repeals the exemption to the general excise tax for agricultural businesses engaged in the production of genetically engineered agricultural products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB933 | Intro
25% | Reduces the general excise tax rate on the gross proceeds or gross income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Childr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB959 | Intro
25% | Exempts the sale of groceries and nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax. Incrementally increases the general excise tax over four years, with the increased proceeds during certain fiscal years to be deposited into the general fund. Remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB1241 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1534 | Intro
25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Establishes a surcharge on the general excise tax and use tax for the sale or use of luxury cars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1335 | Intro
25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Establishes a surcharge on the general excise tax and use tax for the sale or use of luxury cars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB628 | Intro
25% | Increases the general excise tax by 1%. Establishes the teacher salary special fund within the Department of Education. Requires that increased general excise tax revenues be deposited into the teacher salary special fund and the school facilities sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB875 | Intro
25% | Reduces the general excise tax rate on the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1077 | Intro
25% | Provides a general excise tax exemption on gross proceeds received from the construction, sale, or installation of electrical vehicle charging infrastructure in certain circumstances. Repeals on 1/1/2031.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB955 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by a nurse entrepreneur for health care-related goods and services purchased under Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB937 | Intro
25% | Establishes that any grants received from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) by an eligible business pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 shall not be subject to state general excise tax. Requires any state general excise ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1125 | Intro
25% | Authorizes general excise tax exemptions for residential care services provided by certain licensed health care facilities pursuant to a contract with the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health. Effective 1/1/26.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB310 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county with a pre-existing surcharge to continue the surcharge after December 31, 2030, at a lower rate of one-fourth per cent. Authorizes counties that have not adopted a surcharge ordinance on state tax to adopt a surcharge ordinance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB389 | Intro
25% | Expands the general excise tax exemption established by Act 47, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, to include amounts received by optometrists, audiologists, and chiropractors, for healthcare-related goods or services purchased under the Medicare, Medicaid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB180 | Intro
25% | Exempts the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purchase and the program e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | SB377 | Intro
25% | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB311 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB194 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB220 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county that has adopted a surcharge to state tax to extend the surcharge to 12/31/2056. Extends the end date of the one percent Transient Accommodation Tax increase to 12/31/2056. Requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit and annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
