STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2190

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2925
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2925 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FUEL TAX,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to delete unnecessary fuel tax
reporting requirements.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Lieutenant Governor, the Department of Taxation, Government
Efficiency Teams, Inc., and the Tesoro Hawaii Corporation.
Comments were received from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

     This bill, produced by the Slice Waste and Tape (SWAT)
initiative, amends section 243-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by
deleting the requirement that fuel distributors submit
information about the total number of gallons of fuel imported
and information about the fuel distributors inventory.

     Your Committee finds that reporting requirements which are
no longer used by the Department of Taxation are an unnecessary
burden on both the Department of Taxation and the fuel
distributors operating in the State and should be repealed as
provided in this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.

 
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No. 2925 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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