{"id":852,"date":"2017-09-06T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/09\/06\/anatomy-of-a-rail-deal-transparency-sunset-provisions-ban-on-lobby-provided-data\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:32:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-rail-deal-transparency-sunset-provisions-ban-on-lobby-provided-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-a-rail-deal-transparency-sunset-provisions-ban-on-lobby-provided-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Rail Deal. Transparency. Sunset Provisions. Ban on Lobby Provided Data."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 5 day special legislative session in Hawaii produced a rail deal that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 top legislative leaders got on the same page.\n<ul>\n<li>Senate President<\/li>\n<li>House Speaker<\/li>\n<li>Senate Ways and Means Committee chair<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0House Transportation Committee Chair<\/li>\n<li>House Finance Committee Chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Agreed to:\n<ul>\n<li>use specific numbers on the project and in the revenue generating plan:\n<ul>\n<li>use only the numbers of\u00a0Hawaii Department of Budget and Finance\u00a0and not lobbyist provided numbers<\/li>\n<li>total revenue generated for the project: $2.4 billion over 13 years<\/li>\n<li>$1.046 billion from a 0.5%t general excise tax charged on Oahu taxpayers<\/li>\n<li>$1.3 billion from hotel guests statewide via a 1%\u00a0increase in the hotel room tax<\/li>\n<li>Extends by 3 years the 0.5% general excise tax &amp; increases the hotel room tax to 10.25 percent from 9.25 percent for 13 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>require certain levels of transparency<\/li>\n<li>require a timeline &amp; sunset provisions on the taxes, which if not adhered to kills the project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2017\/09\/how-the-legislatures-big-five-crafted-a-deal-to-rescue-honolulu-rail\/\">Honolulu News \u00a0|\u00a0How the Legislature\u2019s \u2018Big Five\u2019 Crafted A Deal To Rescue Honolulu Rail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5 day special legislative session in Hawaii produced a rail deal that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 top legislative leaders got on the same page.\n<ul>\n<li>Senate President<\/li>\n<li>House Speaker<\/li>\n<li>Senate Ways and Means Committee chair<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0House Transportation Committee Chair<\/li>\n<li>House Finance Committee Chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Agreed to:\n<ul>\n<li>use specific numbers on the project and in the revenue generating plan:\n<ul>\n<li>use only the numbers of\u00a0Hawaii Department of Budget and Finance\u00a0and not lobbyist provided numbers<\/li>\n<li>total revenue generated for the\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30,4,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","category-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}