Report Title:

Skilled Nursing Facilities; Enterprise Zone Benefits

 

Description:

Adds skilled nursing facilities to the businesses that may qualify for benefits under the State Enterprise Zones law.  (HB1567 HD1)

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1567

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

     1.  By adding the definition of "skilled nursing facility" to be appropriately inserted and to read:

     ""Skilled nursing facility" has the same meaning as defined in Section 1819(a) of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1395i-3)."

     2.  By amending the definition of "qualified business" to read:

     ""Qualified business" means any corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship authorized to do business in the State that is qualified under section 209E-9, subject to the state corporate or individual income tax under chapter 235, and is:

     (1)  Engaged in manufacturing, the wholesale sale of tangible personal property as defined in section 237-4, or a service business as defined in this chapter;

     (2)  Engaged in producing agricultural products where the business is a producer as defined in section 237-5, or engaged in processing agricultural products, all or some of which were grown within an enterprise zone;

     (3)  Engaged in research, development, sale, or production of all types of genetically-engineered medical, agricultural, or maritime biotechnology products; [or]

     (4)  Engaged in producing electric power from wind energy for sale primarily to a public utility company for resale to the public[.]; or

     (5)  Engaged in the activities of a skilled nursing facility.

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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 and shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2009.