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1-THE SENATE S.B. NO. 1468 THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 S.D. 1 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
1+THE SENATE S.B. NO. 1468 THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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Section 23-73, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows: "(c) This section shall apply to the following: (1) Section 237-16.5--Gross income of real property lessees from sublessees; (2) Section 237-16.8--Value or gross income of nonprofit organizations from conventions, conferences, trade shows, and display spaces; (3) Section 349-10--Proceeds earned from annual senior citizen's fairs; (4) Section 237-23.5--Amounts received from common payments of related entities; (5) Section 237-24(13)--Amounts received by blind, deaf, or totally disabled persons from their business; [(6) Section 237-24(14)--Amounts received by independent cane farmers who are sugarcane producers; (7)] (6) Section [237-24(15)] 237-24(14)--Amounts received by foster parents; and [(8)] (7) Section [237-24(16)] 237-24(15)--Reimbursements to cooperative housing corporations for operating and maintenance expenses[; (9) Section 237-24(17)--Amounts received by TRICARE managed care support contractors; and (10) Section 237-24(18)--Amounts received by Patient-Centered Community Care program contractors]." SECTION 2. Section 237-24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows: "§237-24 Amounts not taxable. This chapter shall not apply to the following amounts: (1) Amounts received under life insurance policies and contracts paid by reason of the death of the insured; (2) Amounts received (other than amounts paid by reason of death of the insured) under life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, either during the term or at maturity or upon surrender of the contract; (3) Amounts received under any accident insurance or health insurance policy or contract or under workers' compensation acts or employers' liability acts, as compensation for personal injuries, death, or sickness, including also the amount of any damages or other compensation received, whether as a result of action or by private agreement between the parties on account of the personal injuries, death, or sickness[.]; (4) The value of all property of every kind and sort acquired by gift, bequest, or devise, and the value of all property acquired by descent or inheritance; (5) Amounts received by any person as compensatory damages for any tort injury to the person, or to the person's character reputation, or received as compensatory damages for any tort injury to or destruction of property, whether as the result of action or by private agreement between the parties (provided that amounts received as punitive damages for tort injury or breach of contract injury shall be included in gross income); (6) Amounts received as salaries or wages for services rendered by an employee to an employer; (7) Amounts received as alimony and other similar payments and settlements; (8) Amounts collected by distributors as fuel taxes on "liquid fuel" imposed by chapter 243, and the amounts collected by such distributors as a fuel tax imposed by any Act of the Congress of the United States; (9) Taxes on liquor imposed by chapter 244D on dealers holding permits under that chapter; (10) The amounts of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products imposed by chapter 245 on wholesalers or dealers holding licenses under that chapter and selling the products at wholesale; (11) Federal excise taxes imposed on articles sold at retail and collected from the purchasers thereof and paid to the federal government by the retailer; (12) The amounts of federal taxes under chapter 37 of the Internal Revenue Code, or similar federal taxes, imposed on sugar manufactured in the State, paid by the manufacturer to the federal government; (13) An amount up to, but not in excess of, $2,000 a year of gross income received by any blind, deaf, or totally disabled person engaging, or continuing, in any business, trade, activity, occupation, or calling within the State; a corporation all of whose outstanding shares are owned by an individual or individuals who are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; a general, limited, or limited liability partnership, all of whose partners are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; or a limited liability company, all of whose members are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; [(14) Amounts received by a producer of sugarcane from the manufacturer to whom the producer sells the sugarcane, where: (A) The producer is an independent cane farmer, so classed by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Sugar Act of 1948 (61 Stat. 922, Chapter 519) as the Act may be amended or supplemented; (B) The value or gross proceeds of the sale of the sugar, and other products manufactured from the sugarcane, are included in the measure of the tax levied on the manufacturer under section 237-13(1) or (2); (C) The producer's gross proceeds of sales are dependent upon the actual value of the products manufactured therefrom or the average value of all similar products manufactured by the manufacturer; and (D) The producer's gross proceeds of sales are reduced by reason of the tax on the value or sale of the manufactured products; (15)] (14) Money paid by the State or eleemosynary child-placing organizations to foster parents for their care of children in foster homes; and [(16)] (15) Amounts received by a cooperative housing corporation from its shareholders in reimbursement of funds paid by [such] the corporation for lease rental, real property taxes, and other expenses of operating and maintaining the cooperative land and improvements; provided that [such a] the cooperative corporation is a corporation: (A) Having one and only one class of stock outstanding; (B) Each of the stockholders of which is entitled solely by reason of the stockholder's ownership of stock in the corporation, to occupy for dwelling purposes a house, or an apartment in a building owned or leased by the corporation; and (C) No stockholder of which is entitled (either conditionally or unconditionally) to receive any distribution not out of earnings and profits of the corporation except in a complete or partial liquidation of the corporation[; and (17) Amounts received by a contractor of the Patient-Centered Community Care program that is established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to title 38 United States Code section 8153, as amended, for the actual costs or advancements to third party health care providers pursuant to a contract with the United States]." SECTION 3. Section 421H-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows: "(c) The membership shares and cooperative fees are interests in real property for purposes of: (1) Cooperative housing corporations under section 216 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended; and (2) Exemption from state general excise tax under section [237-24(16).] 237-24(15)." SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored. SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
47+ SECTION 1. Section 237-24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows: "§237-24 Amounts not taxable. This chapter shall not apply to the following amounts: (1) Amounts received under life insurance policies and contracts paid by reason of the death of the insured; (2) Amounts received (other than amounts paid by reason of death of the insured) under life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, either during the term or at maturity or upon surrender of the contract; (3) Amounts received under any accident insurance or health insurance policy or contract or under workers' compensation acts or employers' liability acts, as compensation for personal injuries, death, or sickness, including also the amount of any damages or other compensation received, whether as a result of action or by private agreement between the parties on account of the personal injuries, death, or sickness. (4) The value of all property of every kind and sort acquired by gift, bequest, or devise, and the value of all property acquired by descent or inheritance; (5) Amounts received by any person as compensatory damages for any tort injury to the person, or to the person's character reputation, or received as compensatory damages for any tort injury to or destruction of property, whether as the result of action or by private agreement between the parties (provided that amounts received as punitive damages for tort injury or breach of contract injury shall be included in gross income); (6) Amounts received as salaries or wages for services rendered by an employee to an employer; (7) Amounts received as alimony and other similar payments and settlements; (8) Amounts collected by distributors as fuel taxes on "liquid fuel" imposed by chapter 243, and the amounts collected by such distributors as a fuel tax imposed by any Act of the Congress of the United States; (9) Taxes on liquor imposed by chapter 244D on dealers holding permits under that chapter; (10) The amounts of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products imposed by chapter 245 on wholesalers or dealers holding licenses under that chapter and selling the products at wholesale; (11) Federal excise taxes imposed on articles sold at retail and collected from the purchasers thereof and paid to the federal government by the retailer; (12) The amounts of federal taxes under chapter 37 of the Internal Revenue Code, or similar federal taxes, imposed on sugar manufactured in the State, paid by the manufacturer to the federal government; (13) An amount up to, but not in excess of, $2,000 a year of gross income received by any blind, deaf, or totally disabled person engaging, or continuing, in any business, trade, activity, occupation, or calling within the State; a corporation all of whose outstanding shares are owned by an individual or individuals who are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; a general, limited, or limited liability partnership, all of whose partners are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; or a limited liability company, all of whose members are blind, deaf, or totally disabled; [(14) Amounts received by a producer of sugarcane from the manufacturer to whom the producer sells the sugarcane, where: (A) The producer is an independent cane farmer, so classed by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Sugar Act of 1948 (61 Stat. 922, Chapter 519) as the Act may be amended or supplemented; (B) The value or gross proceeds of the sale of the sugar, and other products manufactured from the sugarcane, are included in the measure of the tax levied on the manufacturer under section 237-13(1) or (2); (C) The producer's gross proceeds of sales are dependent upon the actual value of the products manufactured therefrom or the average value of all similar products manufactured by the manufacturer; and (D) The producer's gross proceeds of sales are reduced by reason of the tax on the value or sale of the manufactured products; (15)] (14) Money paid by the State or eleemosynary child-placing organizations to foster parents for their care of children in foster homes; and [(16)] (15) Amounts received by a cooperative housing corporation from its shareholders in reimbursement of funds paid by the corporation for lease rental, real property taxes, and other expenses of operating and maintaining the cooperative land and improvements; provided that [such a] the cooperative corporation is a corporation: (A) Having one and only one class of stock outstanding; (B) Each of the stockholders of which is entitled solely by reason of the stockholder's ownership of stock in the corporation, to occupy for dwelling purposes a house, or an apartment in a building owned or leased by the corporation; and (C) No stockholder of which is entitled (either conditionally or unconditionally) to receive any distribution not out of earnings and profits of the corporation except in a complete or partial liquidation of the corporation[; and (17) Amounts received by a contractor of the Patient-Centered Community Care program that is established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to title 38 United States Code section 8153, as amended, for the actual costs or advancements to third party health care providers pursuant to a contract with the United States]." SECTION 2. Section 421H-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows: "(c) The membership shares and cooperative fees are interests in real property for purposes of: (1) Cooperative housing corporations under section 216 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended; and (2) Exemption from state general excise tax under section [237-24(16).] 237-24(15)." SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored. SECTION 4. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on January 1, 2026. INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________ BY REQUEST
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57+ (3) Amounts received under any accident insurance or health insurance policy or contract or under workers' compensation acts or employers' liability acts, as compensation for personal injuries, death, or sickness, including also the amount of any damages or other compensation received, whether as a result of action or by private agreement between the parties on account of the personal injuries, death, or sickness.
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144+Repeals the general excise tax exemption for amounts received by independent sugar cane farmers. Repeals the general excise tax exemption for amounts received by a contractor of the Patient-Centered Community Care program that is established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to title 38 United States Code section 8153. Effective 1/1/2026.
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