Bill Text: HI HB549 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Small Business Innovation
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB549 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB549-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Small Business Innovation
Description:
Clarifies the operation of the high technology research and development loan and grant program to allow the State to catch up to increased federal award amounts since 1989. Gives priority to first-time small business innovation research and small business technology transfer award or contract recipients. Allows, rather than requires, the grant program to borrow funds from the Hawaii capital loan revolving fund.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to high technology.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 206M-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending subsection (b) to read:
"(b) The development corporation [may]
shall provide grants [as follows:
(1) Up to the lesser of:
(A) Fifty per cent of the federal
small business innovation research phase I award or contract;
(B) $25,000 to each business in Hawaii that receives a federal small business innovation research phase I award or contract
from any participating federal agency;
(2) Up to $25,000 to each business in
Hawaii that receives a federal small business technology transfer program award
or contract from any participating federal agency; or
(3) Up to $3,000 to each business in Hawaii
that applies for a small business innovation research federal grant or small
business technology transfer program federal grant,] to any business in
Hawaii that:
(1) Receives a federal small business innovation research phase I award or contract from any participating federal agency, up to fifty per cent of the amount of the federal award or contract;
(2) Receives a federal small business technology transfer program award or contract from any participating federal agency, up to fifty per cent of the amount of the federal award or contract; or
(3) Applies for a small business innovation research federal grant or a small business technology transfer program federal grant, in an amount not to exceed $3,000,
subject to the availability of funds."
2. By amending subsection (d) to read:
"(d) If funds appropriated for the
purpose of making grants under this section are inadequate to satisfy all
qualified requests, the development corporation [shall] may apply
for funds to be transferred from the Hawaii capital loan revolving fund to
provide the grants in accordance with subsection (b). The amount of any single
transfer of funds shall not exceed $100,000, and the development corporation
shall transfer the entire amount back to the Hawaii capital loan revolving fund
within twelve months of receiving the funds. No more than one fund transfer
shall be outstanding at any one time. The director of business, economic
development, and tourism may transfer funds from the Hawaii capital loan
revolving fund to the development corporation upon request to carry out the
purposes of this section. Transfers of funds shall be made without any charges
or fees."
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.
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