Report Title:

Enterprise Zones; Zone Designation Deadlines

 

Description:

Reduces from 30 days, to 15 working days, the time within which the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, after reviewing county zone designation applications, must convey to the Governor its recommendations for approval of selected applications.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

3357

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to business.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 209E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The department shall complete review of the application within sixty days of the last date designated for receipt of an application.  After review of the applications, the department shall recommend to the governor within [thirty] fifteen working days those applications with the greatest potential for accomplishing the purpose of this chapter.  If an application is denied, the governing body shall be informed of that fact together with the reasons for the denial."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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