Bill Text: HI SB674 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Low-Profit Limited Liability Company

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-25 - (S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. [SB674 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-SB674-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

674

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to low-profit limited liability companIES.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 428-101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

     ""L3C" or "low-profit limited liability company" means a person organized under this chapter that is organized for a business purpose that satisfies and is at all times operated to satisfy each of the following requirements:

     (1)  The company:

         (A)  Significantly furthers the accomplishment of one or more charitable or educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 United States Code section 170 (c)(2)(B); and

         (B)  Would not have been formed but for the company's relationship to the accomplishment of charitable or educational purposes;

     (2)  No significant purpose of the company is the production of income or the appreciation of property; provided that the fact that a person produces significant income or capital appreciation, in the absence of other factors, shall not be conclusive evidence of a significant purpose involving the production of income or the appreciation of property;

     (3)  No purpose of the company is to accomplish one or more political or legislative purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 United States Code section 170(c)(2)(D); and

     (4)  If a company that met the definition "low-profit limited liability company" at its formation at any time ceases to satisfy any one of the requirements, it shall immediately cease to be a low-profit limited liability company, but by continuing to meet all the other requirements of this chapter, shall continue to exist as a limited liability company.  The name of the company shall be changed to be in conformance with section 428‑105."

     SECTION 2.  Section 428-105, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  [The] Except for low-profit limited liability companies, the name of a limited liability company [must] shall contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC".  "Limited" may be abbreviated as "Ltd.", and "company" may be abbreviated as "Co.".  The letters in the name of a limited liability company must be letters of the English alphabet.  The name of a low-profit limited liability company shall contain the abbreviation L3C or l3c."

     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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Low-Profit Limited Liability Company

 

Description:

Provides for the creation of low-profit limited liability companies under the uniform limited liability company act.

 

 

 

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