Bill Text: HI SB2413 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Enterprise Zones; Renewable Energy

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2413 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2413-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2298

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2413

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2413 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE ENTERPRISE ZONES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to expand eligible business activity in the state enterprise zones to include the development or production of various types of renewable energy.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Hawaii Energy Policy Forum; Hawaii Laborers' Union; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; and one individual.  The Department of Taxation testified in opposition.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure will facilitate private sector investment in clean energy production that will benefit the health, safety, and welfare of Hawaii by stimulating economic development and revitalization of neighborhoods in the designated enterprise zones, establishing "green jobs" for enterprise zone residents, and producing clean and sustainable renewable energy.

 

     In addition, your Committees note that this measure has the support of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, which includes representatives from the electric utilities, oil and natural gas suppliers, environmental and community groups, renewable energy industry, and federal, state and local government, including representatives from the neighbor islands.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adding a findings and purpose section, which outlines the importance of this measure in enhancing Hawaii's struggling economy.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2413, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2413, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Energy and Environment,

 

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair