Bill Text: HI SB1226 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tourism Special Fund; Transient Accommodations Tax

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1226 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1226-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1244

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1226

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1226, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TOURISM SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to adjust the percentage of Transient Accommodations Tax revenues deposited into the Tourism Special Fund from 34.2 percent to an unspecified percentage.

 

     The Hawaii Hotel and Lodging Association, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Waikiki Beach Activities, Ltd., and Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii opposed this bill.  The Hawaii Tourism Authority, Department of Taxation, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Outrigger Hotels, Maui Hotel and Lodging Association, and Tax Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; 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, Culture, & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1226, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1226, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ JOEY MANAHAN, Chair