Report Title:

Fuel Tax

 

Description:

Exempts SLH 2007, Act 209's amendments to section 243-4(a), HRS, from repeal and reenactment on December 31, 2009 by SLH 2007, Act 103, which will lower the license taxes paid by distributors on each gallon of liquid fuel sold.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

521

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to FUEL TAX.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 243-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, was amended by Act 209, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, raising the license taxes paid by distributors on each gallon of liquid fuel sold, effective July 1, 2007.  Act 103, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, relating to naphtha, also amended section 243-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, subject to repeal and reenactment on December 31, 2009, pursuant to Act 103, section 5(1).  The legislature intended that amendments made by Act 209 to section 243-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, be permanent.  Unless expressly exempted from the repeal and reenactment condition of Act 103, the amendments to section 243-4(a), made by Act 209, will be repealed on December 31, 2009, thereby lowering the license taxes paid by distributors on each gallon of liquid fuel sold.

     The purpose of this Act is to amend Act 209, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, to exempt amendments made by Act 209 to section 243-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, from the repeal and reenactment provisions of Act 103, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007.

     SECTION 2.  Act 209, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, is amended by amending section 6 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007; provided that section 2 of this Act shall be repealed on June 30, 2009[.]; and provided further that the amendments made to section 243-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, by section 3 of this Act, shall not be repealed when section 243-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, is reenacted on December 31, 2009, pursuant to Act 103, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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