Report Title:

Procurement; Evaluating Bids; General Excise and Use Taxes

 

Description:

Amends the public procurement code relating to preferences to require the State and counties to ignore general excise and use tax amounts when evaluating bids from local companies.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1935

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the public procurement code.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 103D-1008, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§103D-1008[]] Taxpayer preference. For evaluation purposes, the bidder's tax-exempt price shall not be increased by the applicable retail rate of general excise tax and the applicable use tax. For competitive sealed bids, the lowest responsive, responsible bidder[, taking into consideration the above increase,] shall be awarded the contract[, but the]. The contract amount of any contract awarded shall be the amount of the price offered and shall not [include the amount of the increase.] be increased by the applicable retail rate of general excise tax and the applicable use tax."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

INTRODUCED BY:

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