STAND. COM. REP. NO.  129

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 370

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 370 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce from 2 cents to 1 cent per gallon, the Hawaii license tax on diesel used in electric power-generation by regulated power-generating facilities, to correct the inadvertent application of a 2007 liquid fuel tax increase to such diesel fuels.

 

     The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Transportation submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.  Your Committee received comments from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding a purpose section and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 370, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 370, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

 

 

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair