(1) Increase the state vehicle excise tax on passenger cars and pickup trucks weighing more than four thousand pounds net weight up to and including ten thousand pounds net weight;

(2) Allocate additional excise taxes received on each passenger car or pickup truck weighing over four thousand pounds net weight into a clean vehicle fund that will be made available as a rebate on clean fuel vehicles purchased in the State;

(3) Require the director of finance to develop and implement a plan to distribute the proceeds from the clean vehicle fund by December 31, 2007;

(4) Exempt the purchase of clean fuel vehicles and electric vehicles from the state excise tax;

(5) Define the term "clean fuel; and

(6) Establish guidelines and objectives in the Hawaii State Planning Act for renewable energy and fuels.

(1) Weighing over four thousand pounds net weight, up to and including five thousand pounds net weight, there shall be levied a tax equivalent to one per cent of the gross proceeds of sales; and

(2) Weighing over five thousand pounds net weight, up to and including ten thousand pounds net weight, there shall be levied a tax equivalent to two per cent of the gross proceeds of sales;

(1) "Clean fuel" means:

(2) "Passenger car" shall have the same meaning as under section 286-2.

(3) "Pickup truck" shall have the same meaning as under section 291-14.

(1) Support research and development as well as promote the use of renewable energy sources;

(2) Ensure that the combination of energy supplies and energy-saving systems is sufficient to support the demands of growth;

(3) Base decisions of least-cost supply-side and demand-side energy resource options on a comparison of their total costs and benefits when a least-cost is determined by a reasonably comprehensive, quantitative, and qualitative accounting of their long-term, direct and indirect economic, environmental, social, cultural, and public health costs and benefits;

(4) Promote all cost-effective conservation of power and fuel supplies through measures including:

(5) Ensure, to the extent that new supply-side resources are needed, the development or expansion of energy systems [utilizes] that utilize a diverse assortment of the least-cost energy supply [option] options and resources and [maximizes] maximize efficient technologies;

(6) Support research, development, and demonstration of energy efficiency, load management, and other demand-side management programs, practices, and technologies;

(7) Promote alternate fuels and energy efficiency by encouraging diversification of transportation fuels, modes, and infrastructure;

(8) Support actions that reduce, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gases in utility, transportation, and industrial sector applications; [and]

(9) Support actions that reduce, avoid, or sequester Hawaii's greenhouse gas emissions through agriculture and forestry initiatives[.]; and

(10) Support a renewable fuels standard of ten per cent of highway fuel demand to be provided by renewable fuels by 2010, fifteen per cent by 2015, and twenty per cent by 2020. "Renewable fuels" include:

(1) Amounts received under life insurance policies and contracts paid by reason of the death of the insured;

(2) Amounts received (other than amounts paid by reason of death of the insured) under life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, either during the term or at maturity or upon surrender of the contract;

(3) Amounts received under any accident insurance or health insurance policy or contract or under workers' compensation acts or employers' liability acts, as compensation for personal injuries, death, or sickness, including also the amount of any damages or other compensation received, whether as a result of action or by private agreement between the parties on account of the personal injuries, death, or sickness;

(4) The value of all property of every kind and sort acquired by gift, bequest, or devise[,] and the value of all property acquired by descent or inheritance;

(5) Amounts received by any person as compensatory damages for any tort injury to the person, or to the person's character reputation, or received as compensatory damages for any tort injury to or destruction of property, whether as the result of action or by private agreement between the parties (provided that amounts received as punitive damages for tort injury or breach of contract injury shall be included in gross income);

(6) Amounts received as salaries or wages for services rendered by an employee to an employer;

(7) Amounts received as alimony and other similar payments and settlements;

(8) Amounts collected by distributors as fuel taxes on "liquid fuel" imposed by chapter 243[,] and the amounts collected by such distributors as a fuel tax imposed by any Act of the Congress of the United States;

(9) Taxes on liquor imposed by chapter 244D on dealers holding permits under that chapter;

(10) The amounts of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products imposed by chapter 245 on wholesalers or dealers holding licenses under that chapter and selling the products at wholesale;

(11) Federal excise taxes imposed on articles sold at retail and collected from the purchasers thereof and paid to the federal government by the retailer;

(12) The amounts of federal taxes under chapter 37 of the Internal Revenue Code, or similar federal taxes, imposed on sugar manufactured in the State, paid by the manufacturer to the federal government;

(13) An amount up to, but not in excess of, $2,000 a year of gross income received by: any blind, deaf, or totally disabled person engaging, or continuing, in any business, trade, activity, occupation, or calling within the State; a corporation all of whose outstanding shares are owned by an individual or individuals who are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; a general, limited, or limited liability partnership, all of whose partners are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; or a limited liability company, all of whose members are blind, deaf, or totally disabled;

(14) Amounts received by a producer of sugarcane from the manufacturer to whom the producer sells the sugarcane, where:

(15) Money paid by the State or eleemosynary child-placing organizations to foster parents for their care of children in foster homes; [and]

(16) Amounts received by a cooperative housing corporation from its shareholders in reimbursement of funds paid by such corporation for lease rental, real property taxes, and other expenses of operating and maintaining the cooperative land and improvements; provided that such a cooperative corporation is a corporation:

(17) Amounts received from the sale of a passenger car (as that term is defined in section 286-2) or a pickup truck (as that term is defined in section 291-14) that: