Report Title:

Rental motor vehicle; surcharge; surcharge tax; State Highway Fund

Description:

Extends the $1 per day surcharge on rental motor vehicles beyond September 1, 2008 and deposits the money into the State Highway Fund.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3118
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE SURCHARGE TAX.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to maintain a rental motor vehicle surcharge tax of $3 a day.

     SECTION 2.  Section 251-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There is levied and shall be assessed and collected each month a rental motor vehicle surcharge tax of [$2 a day, except that for the period of September 1, 1999, to August 31,  2008, the tax shall be] $3 a day, or any portion of a day that a rental motor vehicle is rented or leased.  The rental motor vehicle surcharge tax shall be levied upon the lessor; provided that the tax shall not be levied on the lessor if:

     (1)  The lessor is renting the vehicle to replace a vehicle of the lessee that is being repaired; and

     (2)  A record of the repair order for the vehicle is retained either by the lessor for two years for verification purposes or by a motor vehicle repair dealer for two years as provided in section 437B‑16."

SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. 

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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