By B.J. Reyes

It’s fair to say all eyes at the Legislature were following House Bill 1744 this evening – that’s the proposal to divert the hotel room tax revenue away from the counties and into state coffers to help make up the looming budget deficit.

After the House and Senate conferees decided to defer the bill indefinitely, the Twittersphere erupted.

Here, the varying ways to describe what happened, in 140 characters or less. These are posted in the order they appeared (yes, DePledge was about 45 seconds ahead of us):

@ddepledge House and Senate conferees defer a bill to scoop hotel-room tax revenues from the counties.

@hsbpolitics House-Senate conferees kill bill to take TAT from counties, HB1744 http://tinyurl.com/dhl82q

@hawaiisenate WAM and FIN conf committee held HB1744 which would have authorized counties to add a surcharge on hotel-room taxes http://tinyurl.com/dfndpu

@georgettedeemer HB1744 which scooped TAT funds from counties was deferred indefinitely (killed.)

@KHONnews NO HOTEL TAX SCOOP — Lawmakers decide to defer measure that would have taken away counties’ share of hotel room taxes. Marisa reports.

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