Bill Text: HI SB2413 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State Enterprise Zones; Renewable Energy
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2413 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2413-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to state enterprise zones.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to expand eligible business activity in the state enterprise zones to include the development or production of various types of renewable energy.
SECTION 2. Section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "eligible business activity" to read as follows:
""Eligible business activity" means the:
(1) Manufacture of tangible personal property, the wholesale sale of tangible personal property as described in section 237-4, or a service business as defined in this section;
(2) Production of agricultural products where the business is a producer as defined in section 237-5, or the processing of agricultural products, all or some of which were grown within an enterprise zone;
(3) Research, development, sale, or production of all types of genetically-engineered medical, agricultural, or maritime biotechnology products; or
(4) [Production of electric power from wind
energy for sale primarily to a public utility company for resale to the public.]
Development or production of fuels, thermal energy, or electrical energy
from renewable resources, including:
(A) Wind;
(B) The sun;
(C) Falling water;
(D) Biogas, including landfill and sewage-based digester gas;
(E) Geothermal;
(F) Ocean water, currents, and waves, including ocean thermal energy conversion;
(G) Biomass, including biomass crops, agriculture and animal residues and wastes, and solid waste;
(H) Biofuels; and
(I) Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
State Enterprise Zones; Renewable Energy
Description:
Expands eligible business activity in the State enterprise zones to include the development or production of various types of renewable energy.
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