---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO AMENDING OR REPEALING HAWAII INCOME TAX LAWS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS."
description: "Repeals unnecessary or redundant provisions of the income tax law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "HB 114"
citation: "Hawaii HB 114 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income Tax Law", "Repeal of Obsolete or Unnecessary Provisions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["CULLEN", "LUKE"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b4f2b4b-5852-4523-a900-d1c38b1484ff"
source_url: "http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=114&year=2019"
source_hash: "526a3c0785fa9fba1ea32011876d72b2de0eeb23b6847370e495070c10578d04"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii HB 114 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO AMENDING OR REPEALING HAWAII INCOME TAX LAWS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS.

Repeals unnecessary or redundant provisions of the income tax law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB114** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2019/bills/HB114_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- CULLEN — primary (person)
- LUKE — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-17** Pending introduction.
- **2019-01-18** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Referred to FIN, referral sheet 2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Wednesday, 02-06-19 2:00PM in House conference room 308.
- **2019-02-06** The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Eli, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, B. Kobayashi, Matayoshi, Nishimoto, Todd, Wildberger, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Nakamura. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 796), recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2019-02-20** Passed Second Reading; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Mizuno, Nakamura, Onishi excused (3).
- **2019-02-28** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 12). `introduction`
- **2019-03-01** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** Referred to WAM. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** The committee(s) on WAM has scheduled a public hearing on 03-29-19 10:00AM in conference room 211.
- **2019-03-29** The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WAM were as follows: 10 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Keith-Agaran, English, Harimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Moriwaki, Riviere, Shimabukuro, Taniguchi; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 3 Excused: Senator(s) K. Kahele, Kidani, Fevella. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1769) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2019-04-03** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading.
- **2019-04-03** One Day Notice 04-04-19.
- **2019-04-04** Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 22; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 3 (Senator(s) Keith-Agaran, Kidani, Ruderman). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 647).
- **2019-04-04** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2019-04-24** Act 017, on 04/23/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-24** Act 017, 04/23/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b4f2b4b-5852-4523-a900-d1c38b1484ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).