HB 1315

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Exempts affordable housing projects from the GET; streamlines the review and approval of affordable housing projects; increases portion of the conveyance tax dedicated to the rental housing trust fund from 25% to 50%; repeals rental housing trust fund advisory commission.

HB 1478

HD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ON-CALL EMERGENCY CARE SERVICES AT THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER.

Appropriates funds for on-call emergency care services at The Queen's Medical Center in support of its emergency department and trauma center. Establishes a task force to conduct a study on the impact of the on-call crisis center on the State's Level II Trauma Center. Requires a task force report.

HB 248

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE

Creates demonstration project to reimburse at-home long-term family caregivers on Kauai from 2006-2009 to functionally dependent or cognitively impaired relatives. Appropriates $ for FY 2006-2007 and $ for FY 2008-2009. Requires DOH to report on project annually. Repealed on 6/30/2009.

HB 1334

HD1

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes a long-term care mandatory premium to pay for long-term care benefits; establishes long-term care income tax credit for amounts paid for purchase of long-term care insurance; appropriates funds.

HB 1739

HD1

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Establishes the Drug Busters Program within the Department of the Attorney General to combat the manufacture, distribution, and sale of crystal methamphetamine. Provides funding for substance abuse treatment and prevention programs, a statewide substance abuse awareness and education campaign, operations of the Drug Nuisance Abatement Unit of the Department of the Attorney General, and student substance abuse referrals for assessments by certified substance abuse counselors.

HB 994

HD1

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an investment tax credit for qualified investments in the motor sports recreation, public safety training, educational, and medical facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9; provides certain limitations.

HB 997

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Repeals the TAT trust fund. Increases the ceiling amount that may be transferred from the TAT to the convention center enterprise special fund. Readjusts TAT fund percentages earmarked for specific purposes.

HB 998

HD1

RELATING TO HOTEL CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING TAX CREDIT.

Extends and revises the hotel construction and remodeling tax credit to 8% on 7/1/05, 4% on 7/1/09 and repeals the tax credit on 7/1/12; removes time share facilities, condominiums, and commercial buildings and facilities located within a qualified resort area from the definition of "qualified hotel facility"; includes recapture provisions in the event a qualified hotel facility is converted, or is being converted, to a time share facility or condominium.

HB 1590

HD1

RELATING TO THE HAWAII FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY.

Temporarily replaces the motion picture and film production tax credit with the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credit which provides an income tax credit amounting to 15% of qualified production costs incurred, in any county of Hawaii with a population over 700,000, and 20% in any county of Hawaii with a population under 700,000; establishes criteria to qualify for the tax credit; caps credit at $8,000,000 per production.

HB 1528

HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Adjusts the salaries of certain department head positions, including: the auditor, legislative reference bureau, Hawaii labor relations board, ombudsman, state procurement office, the stadium authority, civil defense, commission on water resource management, the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii, the public utilities commission, the Hawaii paroling authority, the labor and industrial relations appeals board, commissioner of financial institutions and the office of the state public defender, the office of solid waste management, the executive office on aging, the office of veterans' services, and the office of community services.

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Rep. Dwight Takamine