Report Title:
Tourism Special Fund; Aloha Aina Patrol
Description:
Provides a permanent source of funding from the tourism special fund to establish an aloha aina patrol in each county. Redistributes the percentage of TAT revenues given to each county. (HB2061 CD1)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
2061 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004 |
H.D. 2 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
S.D. 1 |
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C.D. 1 |
A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 237D-6.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Revenues collected under this chapter shall be distributed as follows:
(1) 17.3 per cent of the revenues collected under this chapter shall be deposited into the convention center enterprise special fund established under section 201B-8; provided that beginning January 1, 2002, if the amount of the revenue collected under this paragraph exceeds $31,000,000 in any calendar year, revenues collected in excess of $31,000,000 shall be deposited into the general fund;
(2) 32.6 per cent of the revenues collected under this chapter shall be deposited into the tourism special fund established under section 201B-11 for tourism promotion and visitor industry research; provided that beginning on July 1, 2002:
(A) If the amount of revenues deposited into the tourism special fund exceeds $62,292,000 in any fiscal year, of the first $1,000,000 in revenues deposited in excess of $62,292,000:
(i) Ninety per cent shall be deposited into the state parks special fund established in section 184-3.4; and
(ii) Ten per cent shall be deposited into the special land and development fund established in section 171-19 for the Hawaii statewide trail and access program;
provided that the total amount deposited into the state parks special fund and to the special land and development fund for the Hawaii statewide trail and access program shall not exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year;
(3) 44.8 per cent of the revenues collected under this chapter shall be transferred as follows: beginning on July 1, 2004, 1.3 per cent shall be transferred to a sub-account in the tourism special fund for an aloha aina patrol established in each county under the jurisdiction of the police department of that county for operational expenses, including staffing from the police service employees and cadet program, to provide security and assistance to tourists and to serve as ambassadors of aloha in areas of popular beaches and parks that have high tourism traffic, as determined in conjunction with the Hawaii tourism authority, to be in need of additional security to augment normal police services; Kauai county shall receive [14.5] 14.3 per cent, Hawaii county shall receive [18.6] 18.4 per cent, city and county of Honolulu shall receive [44.1] 43.5 per cent, and Maui county shall receive [22.8] 22.5 per cent
(4) 5.3 per cent of the revenues collected under this chapter shall be deposited into the transient accommodations tax trust fund established under section 237D-5.5.
All transient accommodations taxes shall be paid into the state treasury each month within ten days after collection, and shall be kept by the state director of finance in special accounts for distribution in four quarterly allotments on the first days of each January, April, July, and October, as provided in this subsection."
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, 2004.