THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Chair

Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday February 10, 2009

TIME:

9:45 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

 

The following measures were rescheduled from 02-05-09

 

 

SB 973

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION.

Deters tax fraud and promotes uniformity in the tax system by conforming Hawaii tax law to the Internal Revenue Code for preparer penalties and accuracy-related penalties.

 

WAM, JGO

SB 1197

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO THE ECONOMY.

Requires the department of taxation to provide an annual report on tax expenditures to the legislature on or before September 15th of each odd-numbered year.

 

WAM

SB 1327

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO THE RATE OF INTEREST APPLICABLE TO OVERPAYMENTS OF TAX.

Amends the current interest rate payable on overpayments of tax to the rate of one-third of one per cent for each month or fraction thereof.

 

WAM

SB 1624

        Testimony

        Status

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW THE LEGISLATURE TO EITHER FUND THE TAX CREDIT UNDER ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6 OF THE CONSTITUTION, OR DEPOSIT THE SAME AMOUNT INTO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND.

Allows the legislature to either fund the tax credit under article VII, section 6 of the state constitution or deposit the same amount into the emergency and budget reserve "rainy day" fund.

 

WAM, JGO

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:

 

·         By Email:  Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at [email protected] .  Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.

 

·         By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.

 

·         In person:  1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 210, State Capitol.

 

·         By fax:  Testimony may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.  When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.

 

Please note:  If you submit your written testimony after 4:30 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally.  A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing. 

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

Please note:  All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website.  Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.

 

Public Folder.  A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the measures and testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6800.

 

 

 

 

 

________________________________________

Senator Donna Mercado Kim

Chair