State Rep. Tom Brower hinted Monday at how the Legislature might amend the law that determines how much hotel tax money each of Hawaii’s four counties receives annually.

Kauai, Maui, Hawaii and Honolulu counties currently get a combined $93 million of the transient accommodations tax revenue since the state capped it in 2010. They used to get 44.8 percent of however much money the state collected each year to split between them.

The latest draft of House Bill 1671, which originally proposed simply removing the cap, leaves blank the percent the counties would receive.

Brower, one of the co-chairs on a joint House-Senate committee that is working on the bill, said the House is working on one of two possibilities: removing the cap in step increases or raising the cap.

“That’s where we are now,” he said before adjourning the meeting until 4:30 p.m., Wednesday.

Read past Civil Beat coverage of the TAT debate here.

— Nathan Eagle

Photo: State Rep. Tom Brower. (Civil Beat file)