HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2646

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to state ENTERPRISE zones.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that adding businesses engaged in the development or production of various types of renewable energy to the state enterprise zone program will stimulate business, agricultural, and industrial growth.  The legislature further finds that adding other forms of renewable resources including sun, falling water, biogas, geothermal, ocean water, currents and waves, biomass, biofuels, and hydrogen production from renewable energy sources into the state enterprise zone program is consistent with currently approved business activities, which include wind energy production.  This Act will provide the impetus to help attract renewable energy businesses to Hawaii and further the State's renewable energy goals.

     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, agricultural and animal residue and waste, 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 on July 1, 2010.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________

 

 


 


 

Report Title:

State Enterprise Zones; Renewable Energy

 

Description:

Expands eligible business activity in state enterprise zones by including the development or production of various types of renewable energy.

 

 

 

The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.