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HB 2708 Hawaii House · 2020 Regular Session

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Summary
Requires the department of taxation to authorize qualifying individual taxpayers to elect to reduce the amount of tax withheld from their wages for each withholding period, by an amount equal to the prospective amount of the earned income tax credit that the taxpayer would otherwise be entitled to claim on an annual basis. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (HD1)
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
House Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 23, 2020 Last action Mar 6, 2020
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
15
Key actions
3
Committee
7
Mar 6, 2020
Committee
Re-Referred to WAM.
upper
Mar 3, 2020
Committee
Referred to LCA, WAM.
upper
Feb 28, 2020
Introduced
Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 112).
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa excused (1). Transmitted to Senate.
lower
Feb 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Eli, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, B. Kobayashi, Matayoshi, Nishimoto, Todd, Wildberger, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Nakamura; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Committee
Reported from LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 500-20) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
lower
Feb 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Johanson, Eli, Ichiyama, Kitagawa, McKelvey, Yamashita, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan.
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Committee
Re-referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 8
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Committee
Referred to FIN, referral sheet 5
lower
Jan 23, 2020
Introduced
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
TB
Tom Brower
DDemocratic
HI
22