THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair
Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 08, 2018

DATE:

Thursday, February 08, 2018

TIME:

11:15 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB318 SD1
(SSCR477)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
Allows home schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend.  (SD1)

EDU, WAM

SB2712
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.
Includes distilled beverages containing spirits and added blending materials that contain less than twelve per cent of alcohol by volume in the cooler beverage definition.  Deletes definition of draft beer.  Applies the tax rate on draft beer to all beer.

WAM

SB2756
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX.
Repeals the statutory cap on the disposition of conveyance taxes dedicated for deposit into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund for the financing of affordable rental housing development.

WAM

SB2821
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO CONFORMITY TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2017.

WAM

SB2822
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC FILING.
Authorizes the Department of Taxation to require certain taxpayers to file returns electronically, subject to exceptions for reasonable cause as provided by administrative rules.

WAM

SB2823
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION.
Increases the limit on revenues collected by the special enforcement section that are deposited into the tax administration special fund.

WAM

SB2886
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.
Amends descriptions of capital improvement projects related to East Maui Water Systems in the General Appropriations Act of 2015, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016.

WAM

SB2968
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.
Requires a person authorized to collect rent on behalf of the nonresident owner of real property located in the State to withhold the general excise tax due on rents collected.  Requires nonresident owners who receive rents attributable to real property located in the State to enter into a rent collection agreement.

WAM

SB3066
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION THAT PROVIDES HEALTH CARE FACILITIES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Wahiawa General Hospital with completion of deferred facilities and maintenance projects that are necessary for the health and safety of patients and staff.

WAM

SB3073
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.
Adopts section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to qualified business income.

WAM

SB1208 SD1
(SSCR352)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.
Establishes the agribusiness land and facilities special fund to acquire, operate, and maintain large tracts of former agricultural land in the State for purposes of agricultural economic development.  (SD1)

AEN/WTL, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6090.