STAND. COM. REP. 721
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 91
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 91 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Exempt proceeds arising from the sale of goods and services provided to the State, including contracting by the State, from the general excise tax;
(2) Change the central service assessment for special funds from five percent of all receipts, to five percent of all costs of special funds; and
(3) Repeal all special fund exemptions to the central service assessment.
The Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce supported this bill.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Tourism
Authority, Public Utilities Commission, and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation opposed this bill. The Department of Taxation, Department of Budget and Finance, the Judiciary, and Tax Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 91, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 91, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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