STAND. COM. REP. NO. 520-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 2483
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2483 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR TAX LAW,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the reduced gallonage tax amount for still wine and sparkling wine and related provisions; and
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.
Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Finance further examine the issue of whether or not a preferential tax structure on new classes of liquor licensees that may not exist in other states could be a violation of federal law.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2483, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2483, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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