Bill Text: HI SB2969 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Early Learning System Funding; Income Tax Refund Check-Off

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima, Pine, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2969 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2969-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1106-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2969

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2969, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support early learning programs in the state by establishing a state income tax designation of $25 to be paid into the Early Learning Trust Fund when designated by individual taxpayers.

 

     The Early Learning Council, Good Beginnings Alliance, Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children, and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Human Services supported the intent of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Inserting the income designation created by this measure into the already-existing section of the Hawaii Revised Statutes authorizing various other income designations; and

 

     (2)  Making additional technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2969, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2969, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair