S.B. 595, S.D. 1, H.D. 1 Summary

• Expands agricultural commodities exempt from Hawaii's general excise tax on loading, transportation, and unloading to include milk, poultry, eggs, poultry carcasses, and poultry meat
• Adds aquaculture and aquaponics products consumed within the State to the general excise tax exemption, whether imported or processed locally
• Includes beef, beef carcasses, goat meat, goat carcasses, lamb meat, lamb carcasses, sheep meat, and sheep carcasses in the tax exemption
• Applies exemption to all qualifying agricultural commodities regardless of import or in-state processing origin