Category Archives: Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

HB 1375 SD 1

General Excise (HRS 237), Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, GENERAL EXCISE, Replace Hawaii Tourism Authority with Destination Management Agency

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1375 SD 1

INTRODUCED BY:  Senate Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the destination management agency, including its director and commission.  Establishes the tourism special fund and county assistance special fund, to receive allocations from transient accommodations tax revenue. Repeals the Hawaiʻi tourism authority. Continue reading HB 1375 SD 1 →

HB 1375 HD 3

General Excise (HRS 237), Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, GENERAL EXCISE, Replace Hawaii Tourism Authority with Destination Management Agency

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1375 HD 3

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committee on Finance

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the destination management agency, including its director and commission.  Establishes the tourism special fund and county assistance special fund, to receive allocations from transient accommodations tax revenue. Repeals the Hawaiʻi tourism authority. Continue reading HB 1375 HD 3 →

HB 1375 HD 2

General Excise (HRS 237), Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, GENERAL EXCISE, Replace Hawaii Tourism Authority with Destination Management Agency

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1375 HD 2

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committees on Tourism and Economic Development

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the destination management agency, including its director and commission. Establishes the tourism special fund, which receives an allocation from transient accommodations tax revenue. Repeals the Hawaiʻi tourism authority (HTA). Continue reading HB 1375 HD 2 →

HB 1375 HD 1

General Excise (HRS 237), Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, GENERAL EXCISE, Replace Hawaii Tourism Authority with Destination Management Agency

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1375 HD1

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committees on Tourism and Economic Development

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the destination management agency, including its director and commission. Establishes the tourism special fund, which receives an allocation from transient accommodations tax revenue. Repeals the Hawaiʻi tourism authority (HTA). Continue reading HB 1375 HD 1 →

SB 1591

Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, New Public Places Special Fund

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1591

INTRODUCED BY: MORIWAKI

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Creates a Public Places Special Fund to fund hiring private security to work with county law enforcement to enforce state or county laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations prohibiting camping, loitering, nuisance, or other violations in public places. Allocates .005 per cent of the transient accommodations tax to the Public Places Special Fund to be allocated to the counties in proportion to the amount of tax collected in each county.    Continue reading SB 1591 →

HB 1375

General Excise (HRS 237), Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, GENERAL EXCISE, Replace Hawaii Tourism Authority with Destination Management Agency

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1375

INTRODUCED BY:  HB by QUINLAN, AMATO, HUSSEY-BURDICK, KAPELA, KOBAYASHI, LAMOSAO, LOWEN, MARTEN, PERRUSO, POEPOE, Ganaden, Martinez

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the destination management agency, including its director and commission. Establishes the tourism special fund, which receives an allocation from transient accommodations tax revenue. Repeals the Hawaiʻi tourism authority (HTA). Continue reading HB 1375 →

HB 211

Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT: TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS, Advertising Requirements

BILL NUMBER:  HB 211

INTRODUCED BY:  QUINLAN, GATES, HASHIMOTO, HOLT, HUSSEY-BURDICK, KILA, KITAGAWA, LAMOSAO, POEPOE, Kobayashi

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   Establishes requirements for transient accommodations brokers prior to publishing an advertisement on the availability of a property for lease or rent on behalf of an operator or plan manager. Prohibits transient accommodations brokers from engaging in business with an operator or plan manager who is not in compliance with state laws and county ordinances. Prohibits a hosting platform from providing booking services in connection with a transient vacation rental that is not lawfully certified, registered, or permitted as a transient vacation rental under applicable county ordinance. Continue reading HB 211 →

SB 775 SD 2, Proposed HD 1

Transient Accommodations Tax (HRS 237D)

SUBJECT:  TRANSIENT ACCOMODATIONS, Reallocates TAT earmarks

BILL NUMBER:  SB 775 SD 2, Proposed HD 1

INTRODUCED BY: House Committees on Labor & Tourism and Finance

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Establishes the natural resource management special fund and authorizes uses for moneys in the fund. Establishes a natural resource management commission to guide and approve the disbursement of moneys deposited into the fund. Allocates transient accommodations tax revenues to the natural resource management special fund. Allocates transient accommodations tax revenues to the Hawaii tourism authority. Repeals the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the special land and development fund. Appropriates funds from the natural resource management special fund and for operating expenses of the Hawaii tourism authority. Continue reading SB 775 SD 2, Proposed HD 1 →