SUBJECT: FUEL, Earmark Barrel Tax to Buy Agricultural Lands
BILL NUMBER: HB 1270, Proposed SD-2
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Adds an earmark on the barrel tax to provide a dedicated funding source for the acquisition of agricultural lands. Creates a new special fund, the Agricultural Land Acquisition Fund, to do this.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Earmark Barrel Tax to Buy Agricultural Lands
BILL NUMBER: SB 2084, SD-1
INTRODUCED BY: Senate Committee on Ways & Means
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Adds an earmark on the barrel tax to provide a dedicated funding source for the acquisition of agricultural lands. Creates a new special fund, the Agricultural Land Acquisition Fund, to do this.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Earmark Barrel Tax to Buy Agricultural lands
BILL NUMBER: SB 2084
INTRODUCED BY: DELA CRUZ, GALUTERIA, INOUYE, K. KAHELE, NISHIHARA, WAKAI, S. Chang, Harimoto, Kidani, Riviere, Shimabukuro
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Adds an earmark on the barrel tax to provide a dedicated funding source for the acquisition of agricultural lands. Creates a new special fund, the Acquisition of Agricultural Lands Trust Fund, to do this.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Earmarks Barrel Tax for Highway Fund
BILL NUMBER: SB 1015; HB 1149 (Identical)
INTRODUCED BY: SB by Kouchi by request; HB by Souki by request
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes a new earmark off the barrel tax to feed the highway fund. Earmarks and special funds decrease transparency and accountability.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Earmarks Barrel Tax for Agriculture Accelerator Special Fund
BILL NUMBER: SB 1204
INTRODUCED BY: DELA CRUZ, GALUTERIA, INOUYE, KIDANI, K. Kahele, Wakai
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes an agriculture accelerator program and an attached special fund. Feeds the fund by an earmark off the barrel tax. Earmarks and special funds decrease transparency and accountability.
SUBJECT: LIQUID FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, Vehicle Registration, Vehicle Weight, and Fuel Tax Increases
BILL NUMBER: SB 1012, HB 1146 (Identical)
INTRODUCED BY: SB by Kouchi by request; HB by Souki by request
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Increases the fuel tax, vehicle registration fee, and vehicle weight tax that go into the Highway Fund. We suggest that some of the requested additional funding is due to inefficiency in the DOT, which needs to be addressed before taxpayers are made to dig into their wallets once again.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Tax Rate Decals at the Pump
BILL NUMBER: HB 948; SB 1083 (Identical)
INTRODUCED BY: HB by TODD, GATES, HOLT, QUINLAN, Aquino, Brower; SB by K. KAHELE, GALUTERIA, Baker, Dela Cruz, Inouye, Wakai
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Requires each fuel retailer to put a decal on each pump showing all of the taxes, federal through county, that are assessed on a gallon of gasoline. Tasks the Department of Agriculture with enforcement, and establishes a special fund into which any fines will be deposited. We question why DoA would be the enforcing agency for a tax provision, especially when the same bill is appropriating funds to DOTAX for such things as printing the decals.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Reallocate Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax
BILL NUMBER: SB 433
INTRODUCED BY: DELA CRUZ, INOUYE, KEITH-AGARAN, KIDANI, NISHIHARA, Gabbard, K. Kahele, Wakai
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Redistributes the environmental response, energy, and food security tax by providing that 10 cents per barrel shall go to the Hawaii agricultural development revolving fund, for the purpose of acquiring agricultural lands. The tax has taken on a life of its own and lacks transparency, and the special funds it feeds do not come under close scrutiny by either lawmakers or the public.
SUBJECT: FUEL, Rate on Naphtha Used for Power Generation
BILL NUMBER: SB 2131, CD-1
INTRODUCED BY: Conference Committee
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This bill retroactively reinstates the 2 cent per gallon tax on naphtha sold for use in a power-generating facility. The measure highlights a much larger problem: why are we applying a fuel tax to uses of fuel that have no relation to highway use?
SUBJECT: FUEL, Rate on Naphtha Used for Power Generation
BILL NUMBER: SB 2131, HD-1
INTRODUCED BY: House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Foundation’s comments relate only to Part I of the bill. Part I retroactively reinstates the 2 cent per gallon tax on naphtha sold for use in a power-generating facility. The measure highlights a much larger problem: why are we applying a fuel tax to uses of fuel that have no relation to highway use?