STAND. COM. REP. NO.  363

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 834

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 834 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate and sustain operational growth for the businesses of adult residential care home operators, group child care home operators, group child care center operators, developmental disabilities domiciliary home operators, community care foster family home operators, and adult foster home operators by freeing up capital for these operators through a general excise tax exemption for income received from the State for services provided by these operators.

     The Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 834 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health,

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair