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Thursday’s decision by the Senate Ways and Means committee to rule out a general excise tax increase means lawmakers may have to strengthen at least a dozen surviving revenue bills to close the state’s budget gap.

The committee voted 10-4 to advance a of that would temporarily suspend more than 20 GET exemptions to raise an extra $315.5 million over the next two years, according to the Department of Taxation.

The part of the bill that would have temporarily hiked the GET by 1 percentage point was taken out. It would have single-handedly generated an extra $1.07 billion over the two years.

Ways and Means Chairman David Ige, who voted against the bill because he didn’t agree with the amendments, said lawmakers may need to broaden or strengthen other tax measures — such as a pension tax or eliminating the state income tax deduction — to raise more money.

“Clearly, the proposals that we’ve been moving along don’t generate sufficient revenues to balance the budget,” Ige told reporters. “My assumption is that there will have to be further cuts or they’ll have to be looking at changing the thresholds on some of the revenue bills … Remember the deficit is $1.3 billion, our budget cut $650 million, so there’s still a lot of ground to be made up.”

State Budget Director Kalbert Young told Civil Beat this week that any further cuts should come from eliminating whole programs.

“We’re beyond cutting,” he said. “The discussion should really be about eliminating, what programs can be eliminated.”

House Finance Chair Marcus Oshiro told Civil Beat he has concerns over how the Senate will balance its budget in light of the decision to kill a GET hike and the lowered revenue projection by the Council on Revenues last week.

At least a dozen other revenue measures are still in play at the Legislature, but it’s unclear at this point exactly how much revenue they could generate. That’s because some of the measures have had dollar figures removed to ensure further discussion in conference committee next week. Others have been amended in ways that alter previous revenue estimates from the Tax Department.

For example, Ways and Means on Thursday advanced , which would allow the state to tap into the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund, but the committee blanked out how much to take.

Dean Hirata, deputy director of the Department of Budget and Finance, said the administration is confident it can close the deficit through cuts and the surviving revenue bills.

“The GET increase was never part of our plan to balance the budget,” Hirata wrote in an email to Civil Beat. “We will continue to collaborate and work with the House and the Senate on the revenue measures that are still alive, including the suspension of certain GET exemptions, pension tax and repeal of the state tax deduction and believe that through a combination of these measures and cost savings, we will be able to close the budget shortfall.”

Here’s a rundown of what’s still alive:

• : Freezes salaries for the Legislative, Judiciary and Executive branches through Dec. 31, 2013.

• : Transfers the $3.5 million balance in the photo enforcement revolving fund to the general fund.

• : Temporarily caps itemized deductions claimed on state income tax returns until Jan. 1, 2016. The Tax Department it would raise about $44.2 million a year.

• : Imposes a surcharge on certain business-related fees to fund operations at the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. The Tax Department the fees would generate $650,000 a year that the state wouldn’t have to appropriate for DBEDT’s budget.

• : Increases the amount of Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund moneys that get deposited into the general fund until June 30, 2015. (No dollar amount or percentages included in latest version.)

• : Eliminates Medicare Part B reimbursement for new state government hires and caps it for existing retirees.

• : Transfers up to $42 million from the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund into the general fund.

• : Taxes pension income in excess of $100,000 for an individual filer. At that threshold, the tax would generate an estimated $17 million.

• : Repeals certain special funds and transfers their balances to the general fund. The funds’ balances total about $30 million.

• : Caps the amount of revenues the four counties would get from the Transient Accommodations Tax at 2010 levels, or “the lesser of 44.8 percent or $101,978,000 of the transient accommodations tax revenues collected in a fiscal year.” The Tax Department has said the cap would generate tens of millions of dollars for the state: $10 million in fiscal 2012; $16.5 million in fiscal 2013; $23.3 million in fiscal 2014; and $30.7 million in fiscal 2015.

• : Increases the alcohol tax. (No dollar amounts included in the latest version.)