STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3586

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2490

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2490, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt total and permanently disabled veterans from annual motor vehicle registration taxes assessed on the veteran's first motor vehicle.  

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the State of Hawaii Department of Defense Office of Veterans Services and two individuals. 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that service connected disabled veterans served valiantly in sacrifice of the United States.  Your Committee also finds that providing a motor vehicle registration tax exemption recognizes the sacrifice and dedication endured by veterans who incurred a service connected disability during military service.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2016.

     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 H.B. No. 2490, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2490, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair