HB 2278 Hawaii House · 2022 Regular Session

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Summary

Establishes a refundable income tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Effective 7/1/2100. (HD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2022

Committee Review

Mar 2022

House Passage

Mar 2022

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 25, 2022 Last action Mar 11, 2022

Floor votes · House Mar 4, 2022

How they voted

45–3

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 50

Mar 4, 2022

D Democratic45

43 Yea 1 Nay 1

95% Yea

R Republican4

1 Yea 2 Nay 1

50% Nay

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 11, 2022

Committee

Referred to EET, WAM.

upper

Mar 8, 2022

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 203).

upper

Mar 4, 2022

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Kong, Okimoto, Ward voting no (3) and Representative(s) Matayoshi, McDermott excused (2). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 25, 2022

Lower · Passed

The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 13 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Yamashita, Branco, Eli, Ilagan, B. Kobayashi, Marten, Nishimoto, Perruso, Sayama, Tam, Todd, Wildberger; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, McDermott.

lower

Feb 18, 2022

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Okimoto voting no (1) and Representative(s) Eli, Kapela excused (2).

lower

Feb 18, 2022

Committee

Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 610-22), recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 15, 2022

Lower · Passed

The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Johanson, Kitagawa, Morikawa, Tarnas; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Matsumoto; 3 Noes: Representative(s) Har, Kong, Onishi; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Aquino, Hashem, Mizuno.

lower

Feb 10, 2022

Committee

Reported from EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 180-22) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.

lower

Feb 8, 2022

Lower · Passed

The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Marten, Hashem, Matayoshi, Perruso, Todd, Tokioka, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.

lower

Jan 28, 2022

Committee

Referred to EEP, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 3

lower

Jan 26, 2022

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 25, 2022

Introduced

Pending introduction.