Budget & Taxes

passed both · Hawaii · House Apr 2, 2026

HB 606: RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOMELANDS.

Appropriates funds to be used by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for mercantile projects, as well as lump sum repair and maintenance, in fiscal year 2025-2026. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesAppropriates funds for DHHL mercantile projects and repairs, directly advancing state budget allocation for specific programs per fiscal year.90% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · House Apr 2, 2026

HB 1020: RELATING TO A PROGRAM TO CHARACTERIZE CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL AND UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES STATEWIDE.

Establishes a Carbon Sequestration, Underground Water, and Geothermal Exploration Resource Characterization Program via slim hole bores and requires a related statewide environmental assessment. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD2)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill explicitly appropriates funds for a state program (Carbon Sequestration Resource Characterization), directly advancing budget allocation for environmental resource management.95% confidence ✓ EnergySupports EnergyBill establishes carbon sequestration and geothermal exploration programs, directly advancing renewable energy infrastructure and emissions reduction efforts per its subjects and summary.90% confidence ✓ EnvironmentSupports EnvironmentEstablishes carbon sequestration program with environmental assessment and funding, directly advancing climate and resource protection efforts.95% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · House Mar 30, 2026

HB 1590: RELATING TO VACATION RENTALS.

Part I: Allows counties to use time-stamped screenshots as evidence for the enforcement of transient accommodations. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority's plans, practices, and efforts involving destination management to include promotion of use of traditional or lawful transient accommodations. Clarifies that the counties may use revenue from the County Transient Accommodations Tax for the enforcement of transient accommodations. Appropriates funds. Part II: Requires hosting platforms that earn service fees for providing booking services for transient accommodations to register with the Department of Taxation as tax collection agents and report, collect, and remit general excise and transient accommodations taxes on behalf of operators. Part II effective 1/1/2027. Effective 7/1/3050. (SD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesMandates tax data reporting and fines for vacation rentals, enforcing collection of transient accommodations tax to bolster county revenue streams.92% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · House Mar 25, 2026

HB 1939: RELATING TO TAXATION.

Amends the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit (film tax credit) by providing additional credits to qualified productions that have a workforce of at least eighty per cent local hires in the first taxable year or second consecutive taxable year and meet other specific requirements, then increasing the local workforce threshold to eighty-two per cent in the third or fourth consecutive taxable year and eighty-five per cent in the fifth consecutive taxable year, that the additional credit is claimed; requiring independent third-party certification of qualified production costs for all film productions claiming the film tax credit; authorizing DBEDT to waive the credit cap per qualified production for one qualified production each fiscal year; and requiring the Hawaii Film Office to submit an annual report to the Legislature. Sunsets 1/1/2033. Effective 7/1/3050. (SD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesExpands tax credits for film productions meeting local hiring criteria, increasing state fiscal support for economic development through targeted tax incentives.90% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentIncentivizes local hiring (80%+ workforce) for film productions via tax credits, directly promoting employment standards and local workforce opportunities.80% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed · Hawaii · House Mar 24, 2026

HB 1414: RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Authorizes the head of a procurement agency to award a contract to a bidder who is not the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, for procurements conducted by competitive sealed bidding, if the head of the procuring agency determines that the award is most beneficial to taxpayers or otherwise in the best interests of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill promotes fiscal responsibility by allowing contract awards most beneficial to taxpayers, aligning with efficient government spending under Budget & Taxes.85% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · House Mar 24, 2026

HB 1950: RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Establishes the State-led Marketing and Branding Special Fund and requires that a portion of all transient accommodations tax revenues that would otherwise be deposited into the general fund be deposited into the special fund, to be used for state-led marketing, branding, and tourism management. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop and submit an annual comprehensive marketing, branding, and tourism management plan to the Legislature for approval. Effective 7/1/3050. (SD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesRedirects transient accommodations tax revenue to dedicated tourism marketing fund, advancing fiscal allocation for tourism management per bill's explicit funding mechanism.95% confidence | Rep's Stance Voted absent

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passed both · Hawaii · House Mar 24, 2026

HB 2411: RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM.

Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii Employer-Led Sector Partnerships Special Fund. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to coordinate its sector partnership activities with the Workforce Development Council. Effective 7/1/3050. (SD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill establishes and appropriates funds into a special fund for sector partnerships, directly allocating state budget resources to economic development programs.95% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentEstablishes funding for employer-led sector partnerships coordinating with Workforce Development Council, advancing workforce development initiatives per bill summary.92% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · House Mar 24, 2026

HB 2590: RELATING TO TAXATION.

Imposes the manufacturing general excise tax rate on motion picture, digital media, and film productions and repeals the provision in the definition of "qualified production costs" that applied the term to mean costs incurred that are subject to the highest general excise tax rate. Exempts from the general excise tax certain amounts received by a motion picture project employer from a client company equal to amounts that are disbursed by the motion picture project employer for employee wages, salaries, payroll taxes, insurance premiums, and employment benefits and payments to loan-out companies. Requires persons making payment to a loan-out company and claiming the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit to deduct and withhold an amount exceeding the amount actually due for all payments made to the loan-out company for services performed in the State. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2026. Effective 7/1/3050. (SD1)

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesProvides tax exemption for film production wages, directly altering tax policy to reduce burden on industry per bill's exemption provision.95% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · Senate Mar 20, 2026

SB 328: RELATING TO TAXATION.

SB 328 creates an income tax credit for dairy farmers who convert their operations to hog farming, covering capital infrastructure costs like building new barns or equipment. It directly affects dairy farm owners planning to switch to hog production. The credit allows eligible farmers to reduce their state income tax liability based on qualifying conversion expenses. The bill takes effect on July 1, 3000, as stated in the official abstract.

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill creates targeted income tax credit for dairy-to-hog conversion, providing tax relief under taxation policy per explicit bill title and summary.90% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Budget & Taxes

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passed both · Hawaii · Senate Mar 20, 2026

SB 826: RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT.

Specifies that the School Facilities Authority is not eligible as a housing developer for the purposes of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Topics ✗ Budget & TaxesOpposes Budget & TaxesRestricts LIHTC eligibility for School Facilities Authority, limiting tax credit access and opposing broadening of the tax credit program.90% confidence ✗ HousingOpposes HousingExcludes School Facilities Authority from LIHTC program, restricting eligible developers for affordable housing tax credit.95% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✗ Opposes Budget & Taxes

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