Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3112, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to suspend the collection of the general excise tax on motor vehicle gasoline for two years.

After due consideration, your Committee has amended the measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with a provision to suspend the collection of the general excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel sold to a county transportation system for two years.

Your Committee finds that this measure will assist the counties to provide a more efficient transportation system that is responsive to the needs of transportation system users.

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. No. 3112, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3112, S.D. 2.