STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3061

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1605

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1605, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AMENDING OR REPEALING HAWAII GENERAL EXCISE TAX LAWS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is update the general excise tax law to conform with other state tax statutes by repealing certain obsolete or unnecessary provisions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Taxation.

Your Committee finds that this measure makes housekeeping amendments to various provisions of the general excise tax law in Chapter 237, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Specifically, this measure deletes unnecessary or redundant provisions and does not make any substantive changes to the law.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

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. 1605, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1605, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair