Bill Text: HI HB963 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transient Accommodations Tax

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Hanohano, Ing, McKelvey, Morikawa, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Fale, McDermott voting no (2) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). [HB963 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB963-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  421

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 963

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 963 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend provisions related to the collection and allocation of the Transient Accommodations Tax by:

 

     (1)  Making permanent the current Transient Accommodations Tax rate of 9.25 percent;

 

     (2)  Repealing the $10 daily Transient Accommodations Tax levied on transient accommodations furnished on a complimentary or gratuitous basis;

 

     (3)  Adjusting the allocation of revenues to the Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund, Tourism Special Fund, and the counties; and

 

     (4)  Making permanent the limits on deposits into the Tourism Special Fund and amounts transferred to the counties.  

 

     The Department of Taxation supported this measure.  The ILWU Local 142 and Hawaii Tourism Authority supported the measure with amendments.  The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Maui Hotel and Lodging Association, Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, Hawai‘i Council of Mayors, Maui Chamber of Commerce, Department of Finance of the County of Kauai, and several members of the Maui County Council opposed this measure.  The City and County of Honolulu, Waikiki Improvement Association, and Tax Foundation of Hawaii offered comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Repealing the $71,000,000 limit on deposits into the Tourism Special Fund and amending the percentage of revenues allocated to that special fund; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 963, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 963, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair