WHO:
Representative
Aaron Ling Johanson, Chair, Committee on Labor & Public Employment
Representative Sylvia Luke, Chair,
Committee Finance
WHAT:
Joint
committee hearing on HB 2541
WHEN:
Thursday,
January 30
9 a.m.
WHERE:
Hawaii
State Capitol
Room 309
Honolulu,
Hawaiʻi
–The House Committee on Labor & Public Employment and the Committee on
Finance will hold a joint hearing on HB 2541 at 9 a.m. Jan. 30 in room 309
at the State Capitol.
The bill, titled
Relating to Helping Working Families, makes the state earned income tax credit
refundable and permanent. The bill also increases and amends the
refundable food/excise tax credit by basing the amount of the credit on a
taxpayer's Hawaiʻi earned income, rather than federal adjusted gross income. In
addition, the bill increases the minimum wage rate to $11 per hour beginning on
1/1/2021, $12 per hour beginning on 1/1/2022, $12.50 per hour beginning on
1/1/2023, and $13 per hour beginning on 1/1/2024.
Decision making
will follow the hearing.
Persons wishing to
offer comments should submit testimony at least 24 hours prior to the
hearing.
Testimony should indicate:
· Testifier's name
with position/title and organization;
· The Committee(s)
to which the comments are directed;
· The date and time
of the hearing; and
· Measure number.
Submit testimony
in ONE of the following ways:
PAPER: Two copies
(including an original) to Room 324 in the State Capitol;
FAX: For testimony
less than 5 pages in length, transmit to 808-586-8469 (Oahu) or 1-800-535-3859
(for neighbor islanders without a computer to submit testimony through the
website); or
WEB:
For testimony less than 20 MB in size, transmit from http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx.
To see the hearing
notice, go to https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/hearingnotices/HEARING_LAB-FIN_01-30-20_.HTM.
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