Category Archives: Miscellaneous

SB 1534 HD 2

Fuel (HRS 243), Miscellaneous, Motor Vehicle (HRS 249)

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1534 HD 2

INTRODUCED BY: House Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes beginning on July 1, 2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of paying a registration surcharge or a per-mile road usage charge until June 30, 2028. Requires motor vehicle registration application to specify whether the type of fuel for which the vehicle is adapted is electricity. Requires certificates of inspection to state the odometer reading of vehicles. Requires the department of transportation to plan for the deployment of a state mileage-based road user charge program by 2033 and submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2026. Defines electric vehicle. Defines alternative fuel vehicle. Makes an appropriation. Continue reading SB 1534 HD 2 →

SB 1101 SD 1

Miscellaneous

SUBJECT: MISCELLANEOUS, Amend State Debt Limit Statements if Tax Increment Bonds Are Authorized

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1101 SD 1

INTRODUCED BY:  Senate Committee on Ways and Means

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Conforms state debt limit statements law to include tax increment bonds if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of such bonds and excluding such bonds from determinations of the Counties’ funded debt is ratified. Continue reading SB 1101 SD 1 →

SB 304 HD 2

Miscellaneous

SUBJECT: MISCELLANEOUS, Visitor Impact Fee

BILL NUMBER:  SB 304 HD 2

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committee on Tourism

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the Visitor Impact Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), through which the department will collect a fee for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other state natural area. Establishes, and appropriates moneys into and out of, the Visitor Impact Fee Special Fund. Continue reading SB 304 HD 2 →

SB 1534 HD 1

Fuel (HRS 243), Miscellaneous, Motor Vehicle (HRS 249)

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1534 HD 1

INTRODUCED BY: House Committee on Transportation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes beginning on July 1, 2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of paying a registration surcharge or a per-mile road usage charge until June 30, 2028. Requires motor vehicle registration application to specify whether the type of fuel for which the vehicle is adapted is electricity. Requires certificates of inspection to state the odometer reading of vehicles. Requires the department of transportation to plan for the deployment of a state mileage-based road user charge program by 2033 and submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2026. Defines electric vehicle. Defines alternative fuel vehicle. Makes an appropriation. Continue reading SB 1534 HD 1 →

SB 304 HD 1

Miscellaneous

SUBJECT: MISCELLANEOUS, Visitor Impact Fee

BILL NUMBER:  SB 304 HD 1

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committee on Tourism

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the Visitor Impact Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), through which the department will collect a fee for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other state natural area. Establishes, and appropriates moneys into and out of, the Visitor Impact Fee Special Fund. Continue reading SB 304 HD 1 →

HB 1101 HD 1

Miscellaneous

SUBJECT:  MISCELLANEOUS, State Exemption for County Stormwater Fees

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1101 HD 1 [TRN-01]

INTRODUCED BY: HB by SAIKI, SB by KOUCHI (Governor’s Package)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Exempts the State and its departments and agencies that maintain or operate a stormwater management system that is interconnected to a county stormwater system from county stormwater user fees. Prohibits each county from denying services to the State or its departments or agencies by reason of nonpayment of user fees. Continue reading HB 1101 HD 1 →

HB 567 HD 2

General Excise (HRS 237), Miscellaneous, Use (HRS 238)

SUBJECT:  GENERAL EXCISE, USE, MISCELLANEOUS, GET Exemption and School Impact Fee Exemption for DHHL Housing

BILL NUMBER:  HB 567 HD 2

INTRODUCED BY: House Committee on Finance

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Exempts housing development for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise tax and school impact fee requirements. Extends the issuance of county affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Continue reading HB 567 HD 2 →

SB 304 SD 2

Miscellaneous

SUBJECT: MISCELLANEOUS, Visitor Impact Fee

BILL NUMBER:  SB 304 SD 2

INTRODUCED BY:  Senate Committee on Ways and Means

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the Visitor Impact Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the department will collect a fee for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other state natural area. Establishes, and appropriates moneys into and out of, the Visitor Impact Fee Special Fund Continue reading SB 304 SD 2 →

SB 1534 SD 2

Fuel (HRS 243), Miscellaneous, Motor Vehicle (HRS 249)

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1534 SD 2

INTRODUCED BY: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Replaces the $50 annual vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles with a capped mileage-based road user fee for electric vehicles. Establishes the Hawaiʻi Highway Safety and Modernization Council effective 7/1/2023; provided that implementation of user fees take effect 1/1/2025. Continue reading SB 1534 SD 2 →