Report Title:

Enterprise Zones; Broadens Scope of Qualified Business

Description:

Broadens scope of the types of businesses that qualify for a "qualified business" designation within the Barbers Point/Kalaeloa enterprise zone to include any lawful business existing within the zone on July 1, 2003. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

82

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 209E-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§209E-4 Enterprise zone designation. (a) The governing body of any county may apply in writing to the department to have an area declared to be an enterprise zone. The application shall include a description of the location of the area or areas in question, and a general statement identifying proposed local incentives to complement the state and any federal incentives.

(b) The governor, upon the recommendation of the director, shall approve the designation of up to six areas in each county as enterprise zones for a period of twenty years. Any such area shall be located in one United States census tract or two or more contiguous United States census tracts in accordance with the most recent decennial United States Census. The census tract or tracts within which each enterprise zone is located also shall meet at least one of the following criteria:

(1) Twenty-five per cent or more of the population have incomes below eighty per cent of the median family income of the county; or

(2) The unemployment rate is 1.5 times the state average.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), census tract #405 within the county of Kauai shall be eligible for designation as an enterprise zone. The eligibility for designation shall remain in effect until January 1, 1997, unless the governor earlier determines that the eligibility is no longer necessary.

(d) Notwithstanding subsection (b) or (c), only lands classified as agricultural in the Waialua district on Oahu, as defined in section 4-1(3)(D), shall be designated an enterprise zone on July 1, 1997, and the designation shall remain in effect until June 30, 2002.

(e) Notwithstanding subsection (b), (c), or (d), or the eligibility requirements to qualify as a qualified business under section 209E-9, any lawful business within the boundaries of the closed Barbers Point Naval Air Station, as described in chapter 206G that are designated an enterprise zone that exists on July 1, 2003, and creates job opportunities,

shall be designated a qualified business; provided that the business is not located on lands retained under the control of the United States Navy."

SECTION 2. The department of business, economic development and tourism and the Hawaii community development authority shall report to the legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2004 on their comprehensive plan and strategy to economically revitalize Kalaeloa.

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.