Hawaii prices and inflation

Affordable rental-housing incentives concern shelter costs, a component of household prices. The law does not set CPI, establish lower rents or apply a price ceiling to all Hawaii homes. HHFDC may approve and certify eligible projects under a county assistance program where at least 50% of available units serve households at or below 100% of HUD median family income. Unless HHFDC exempts a project, regulatory agreements require at least five years for moderate rehabilitation, ten years for substantial rehabilitation, and thirty years from the certificate of occupancy for new construction; new county-assisted construction instead has a fifteen-year minimum from that certificate. These conditions are not a universal entitlement to exemption. HHFDC must amend its administrative rules under chapter 91 to conform to the law. Signing does not establish that the rules, applications or certifications have been completed. Approval was July 8, 2026; sections 2 and 3 begin January 1, 2027. The act preserves its amendments through specified intervening statutory restorations, then repeals the act on July 1, 2031 and restores sections 46-15.1 and 201H-36 to their pre-act form. The separately stated June 30, 2030 certification window for the section 104-2(i)(2) project pathway is not extended to 2031 by this approval. For the separate section 104-2(i)(2) pathway, Act 215 removes the restriction that allowable general-excise and use-tax costs apply only to contracting. It retains a $30 million annual aggregate limit for that pathway’s certified projects, a July 1, 2018–June 30, 2030 approval/certification window, all units at or below 140% of HUD median family income with at least 20% at or below 80%, and protection against refusal solely because an applicant holds a Section 8 voucher. The separate ordinary rental pathway retains at least 50% of units at or below 80%, of which at least 20% of available units are at or below 60%. These are distinct pathways, not the income conditions or a newly imposed cap for every county-assisted project. Later amendments, the referenced restoration statutes, HHFDC rules, actual certifications and fiscal or housing outcomes remain separate review tasks. This approval authorizes conditional exemptions; it does not allocate $30 million in new spending, create a statewide rent cap or prove additional homes.

Retained Hawaii evidence context: income-taxes · reviewed Hawaii policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Hawaii policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed Hawaii policy context · cpi · reviewed Hawaii policy context · real-gdp · reviewed Hawaii policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

to provide affordable rental housing

Affordable rental-housing incentives concern shelter costs, a component of household prices. The law does not set CPI, establish lower rents or apply a price ceiling to all Hawaii homes. HHFDC may approve and certify eligible projects under a county assistance program where at least 50% of available units serve households at or below 100% of HUD median family income. Unless HHFDC exempts a project, regulatory agreements require at least five years for moderate rehabilitation, ten years for substantial rehabilitation, and thirty years from the certificate of occupancy for new construction; new county-assisted construction instead has a fifteen-year minimum from that certificate. These conditions are not a universal entitlement to exemption. HHFDC must amend its administrative rules under chapter 91 to conform to the law. Signing does not establish that the rules, applications or certifications have been completed. Approval was July 8, 2026; sections 2 and 3 begin January 1, 2027. The act preserves its amendments through specified intervening statutory restorations, then repeals the act on July 1, 2031 and restores sections 46-15.1 and 201H-36 to their pre-act form. The separately stated June 30, 2030 certification window for the section 104-2(i)(2) project pathway is not extended to 2031 by this approval. For the separate section 104-2(i)(2) pathway, Act 215 removes the restriction that allowable general-excise and use-tax costs apply only to contracting. It retains a $30 million annual aggregate limit for that pathway’s certified projects, a July 1, 2018–June 30, 2030 approval/certification window, all units at or below 140% of HUD median family income with at least 20% at or below 80%, and protection against refusal solely because an applicant holds a Section 8 voucher. The separate ordinary rental pathway retains at least 50% of units at or below 80%, of which at least 20% of available units are at or below 60%. These are distinct pathways, not the income conditions or a newly imposed cap for every county-assisted project. Later amendments, the referenced restoration statutes, HHFDC rules, actual certifications and fiscal or housing outcomes remain separate review tasks. This approval authorizes conditional exemptions; it does not allocate $30 million in new spending, create a statewide rent cap or prove additional homes.

Retained Hawaii evidence context: income-taxes · reviewed Hawaii policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Hawaii policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed Hawaii policy context · cpi · reviewed Hawaii policy context · real-gdp · reviewed Hawaii policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

to provide affordable rental housing

The fact is the EIA West Coast excluding California regional gasoline-price proxy, not a Hawaii-only price. The proposal concerns Hawaii’s state fuel-tax component and does not change taxes in the other states represented by the regional series. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Hawaii evidence context: West Coast excluding California regular gasoline price. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 2. Section 243-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) and (b) to read as follows: "(a) Every distributor shall, in addition to any other taxes provided by law, pay a license tax to the department of taxation for each gallon of liquid fuel refined, manufactured, produced, or compounded by the distributor and sold or used by the distributor in the State or imported by the distributor, or acquired by the distributor from persons who are not licensed distributors, and sold or used by the distributor in the State. Any person who sells or uses any liquid fuel, knowing that the distributor from whom it was originally purchased has not paid and is not paying the tax thereon, shall pay such tax as would have applied to such sale or use by the distributor. The rates of tax imposed are as follows: (1) For each gallon of diesel oil, 1 cent; (2) For each gallon of gasoline or other aviation fuel sold for use in or used for airplanes, 1 cent; (3) For each gallon of naphtha sold for use in a power-generating facility, 2 cents; (4) For each gallon of liquid fuel, other than fuel mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), and other than an alternative fuel, sold or used in the city and county of Honolulu, or sold in any county for ultimate use in the city and county of Honolulu, [] an amount, to be known as the "city and county of Honolulu fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5; (5) For each gallon of liquid fuel, other than fuel mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), and other than an alternative fuel, sold or used in the county of Hawaii, or sold in any county for ultimate use in the county of Hawaii, [] an amount, to be known as the "county of Hawaii fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5; (6) For each gallon of liquid fuel, other than fuel mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), and other than an alternative fuel, sold or used in the county of Maui, or sold in any county for ultimate use in the county of Maui, [] an amount, to be known as the "county of Maui fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5; and (7) For each gallon of liquid fuel, other than fuel mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), and other than an alternative fuel, sold or used in the county of Kauai, or sold in any county for ultimate use in the county of Kauai, [] an amount, to be known as the "county of Kauai fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5. If it is shown to the satisfaction of the department, based upon proper records and from any other evidence as the department may require, that liquid fuel, other than fuel mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), is used for agricultural equipment that does not operate upon the public highways of the State, the user thereof may obtain a refund of all taxes thereon imposed by this section in excess of 1 cent per gallon. The department shall adopt rules to administer such refunds. (b) Every distributor of diesel oil, in addition to the tax required by subsection (a), shall pay a license tax to the department for each gallon of diesel oil sold or used by the distributor for operating a motor vehicle or motor vehicles upon public highways of the State. The rates of the additional tax imposed are as follows: (1) For each gallon of diesel oil sold or used in the city and county of Honolulu, or sold in any other county for ultimate use in the city and county of Honolulu, [] an amount, to be known as the "city and county of Honolulu fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5; (2) For each gallon of diesel oil sold or used in the county of Hawaii, or sold in any other county for ultimate use in the county of Hawaii, [] an amount, to be known as the "county of Hawaii fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5; (3) For each gallon of diesel oil sold or used in the county of Maui, or sold in any other county for ultimate use in the county of Maui, [] an amount, to be known as the "county of Maui fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5; and (4) For each gallon of diesel oil sold or used in the county of Kauai, or sold in any other county for ultimate use in the county of Kauai, [] an amount, to be known as the "county of Kauai fuel tax", as shall be levied pursuant to section 243-5. If any user of diesel oil furnishes a certificate, in a form that the department shall prescribe, to the distributor or if the distributor who uses diesel oil signs the certificate, certifying that the diesel oil is for use in operating a motor vehicle or motor vehicles in areas other than upon the public highways of the State, the tax as provided in paragraphs (1) to (4) shall not be applicable. If a certificate is not or cannot be furnished and the diesel oil is in fact for use for operating a motor vehicle or motor vehicles in areas other than upon public highways of the State, the user thereof may obtain a refund of all taxes thereon imposed by the foregoing paragraphs. The department shall adopt rules to administer the refunding of such taxes. (c) For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, tax savings based on the repeal of the state fuel and oil tax shall be passed on from the distributor to the consumers as much as practicable." SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored. SECTION 4. This Act, upon its approval, shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025. INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________

Affordable rental-housing incentives concern shelter costs, a component of household prices. The law does not set CPI, establish lower rents or apply a price ceiling to all Hawaii homes. HHFDC may approve and certify eligible projects under a county assistance program where at least 50% of available units serve households at or below 100% of HUD median family income. Unless HHFDC exempts a project, regulatory agreements require at least five years for moderate rehabilitation, ten years for substantial rehabilitation, and thirty years from the certificate of occupancy for new construction; new county-assisted construction instead has a fifteen-year minimum from that certificate. These conditions are not a universal entitlement to exemption. HHFDC must amend its administrative rules under chapter 91 to conform to the law. Signing does not establish that the rules, applications or certifications have been completed. Approval was July 8, 2026; sections 2 and 3 begin January 1, 2027. The act preserves its amendments through specified intervening statutory restorations, then repeals the act on July 1, 2031 and restores sections 46-15.1 and 201H-36 to their pre-act form. The separately stated June 30, 2030 certification window for the section 104-2(i)(2) project pathway is not extended to 2031 by this approval. For the separate section 104-2(i)(2) pathway, Act 215 removes the restriction that allowable general-excise and use-tax costs apply only to contracting. It retains a $30 million annual aggregate limit for that pathway’s certified projects, a July 1, 2018–June 30, 2030 approval/certification window, all units at or below 140% of HUD median family income with at least 20% at or below 80%, and protection against refusal solely because an applicant holds a Section 8 voucher. The separate ordinary rental pathway retains at least 50% of units at or below 80%, of which at least 20% of available units are at or below 60%. These are distinct pathways, not the income conditions or a newly imposed cap for every county-assisted project. Later amendments, the referenced restoration statutes, HHFDC rules, actual certifications and fiscal or housing outcomes remain separate review tasks. This approval authorizes conditional exemptions; it does not allocate $30 million in new spending, create a statewide rent cap or prove additional homes.

Retained Hawaii evidence context: income-taxes · reviewed Hawaii policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Hawaii policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed Hawaii policy context · cpi · reviewed Hawaii policy context · real-gdp · reviewed Hawaii policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

to provide affordable rental housing

Affordable rental-housing incentives concern shelter costs, a component of household prices. The law does not set CPI, establish lower rents or apply a price ceiling to all Hawaii homes. HHFDC may approve and certify eligible projects under a county assistance program where at least 50% of available units serve households at or below 100% of HUD median family income. Unless HHFDC exempts a project, regulatory agreements require at least five years for moderate rehabilitation, ten years for substantial rehabilitation, and thirty years from the certificate of occupancy for new construction; new county-assisted construction instead has a fifteen-year minimum from that certificate. These conditions are not a universal entitlement to exemption. HHFDC must amend its administrative rules under chapter 91 to conform to the law. Signing does not establish that the rules, applications or certifications have been completed. Approval was July 8, 2026; sections 2 and 3 begin January 1, 2027. The act preserves its amendments through specified intervening statutory restorations, then repeals the act on July 1, 2031 and restores sections 46-15.1 and 201H-36 to their pre-act form. The separately stated June 30, 2030 certification window for the section 104-2(i)(2) project pathway is not extended to 2031 by this approval. For the separate section 104-2(i)(2) pathway, Act 215 removes the restriction that allowable general-excise and use-tax costs apply only to contracting. It retains a $30 million annual aggregate limit for that pathway’s certified projects, a July 1, 2018–June 30, 2030 approval/certification window, all units at or below 140% of HUD median family income with at least 20% at or below 80%, and protection against refusal solely because an applicant holds a Section 8 voucher. The separate ordinary rental pathway retains at least 50% of units at or below 80%, of which at least 20% of available units are at or below 60%. These are distinct pathways, not the income conditions or a newly imposed cap for every county-assisted project. Later amendments, the referenced restoration statutes, HHFDC rules, actual certifications and fiscal or housing outcomes remain separate review tasks. This approval authorizes conditional exemptions; it does not allocate $30 million in new spending, create a statewide rent cap or prove additional homes.

Retained Hawaii evidence context: income-taxes · reviewed Hawaii policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Hawaii policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed Hawaii policy context · cpi · reviewed Hawaii policy context · real-gdp · reviewed Hawaii policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

to provide affordable rental housing

The fact counts OASDI beneficiaries receiving payments. Cost-of-living adjustment proposals concern their benefit amounts, without establishing a change in eligibility or beneficiary counts; SSI and Medicare are separate programs. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Hawaii evidence context: Social Security beneficiaries. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

101.Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (a)In GeneralThe Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor shall prepare and publish an index for each calendar month to be known as the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals in the United States who are 62 years of age or older. (b)Effective DateSubsection (a) shall apply with respect to calendar months ending on or after July 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which this Act is enacted. (c)Authorization of AppropriationsThere are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. 102.Computation of cost-of-living increases (a)In generalSection 215(i)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (H)the term Consumer Price Index means the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI–E, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor).. (b)Application to pre-1979 law (1)In generalSection 215(i)(1) of the Social Security Act as in effect in December 1978, and as applied in certain cases under the provisions of such Act as in effect after December 1978, is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (D)the term Consumer Price Index means the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI–E, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor).. (2)Conforming amendmentSection 215(i)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)(4)) is amended by inserting and by section 102 of the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act after 1986. (c)No effect on adjustments under other lawsSection 215(i) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)) is amended by adding at the end the following: (6)Any provision of law (other than in this title or title XVI) which provides for adjustment of an amount based on a change in benefit amounts resulting from a determination made under this subsection shall be applied and administered without regard to the amendments made by section 102 of the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act.. (d)No effect on eligibility for SSI and MedicaidAny increase to an individual’s monthly benefit amount under title II of the Social Security Act as a result of the amendments made by this section shall not be regarded as income or resources for any subsequent month, for purposes of determining the eligibility of the recipient (or the recipient's spouse or family) for benefits or assistance, or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance, under the Supplemental Security Income program or the Medicaid program. (e)Effective dateThe amendments made by this section shall apply to determinations made with respect to cost-of-living computation quarters (as defined in section 215(i)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)(1)(B))) ending on or after September 30 of the second calendar year following the calendar year in which this Act is enacted.