Bill Text: NJ S2131 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows corporation business tax credits to developers for specified capital investments for repurposing qualified health care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - Combined with S2122 (SCS) [S2131 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2131-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator ROBERT M. GORDON
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Allows corporation business tax credits to developers for specified capital investments for repurposing qualified health care facilities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act allowing corporation business tax credits to developers for specified capital investments for repurposing qualified health care facilities, supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Hospital Repurposing and Revitalization Tax Credit Act."
2. As used in this act:
"Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4).
"Developer" means a person who undertakes the repurposing of a qualified health care facility.
"Capital investment" in a qualified health care facility means expenses incurred after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) for: the site preparation and construction, repair, renovation, improvement, equipping, or furnishing of a building, structure, facility or improvement to real property.
"Full-time employee" means a person employed for consideration for at least 35 hours a week, or who renders any other standard of service generally accepted by custom or practice as full-time employment and whose wages are subject to withholding as provided in the "New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act," N.J.S.54A:1-1 et seq., or who is a partner of a partnership who works for the partnership for at least 35 hours a week, or who renders any other standard of service generally accepted by custom or practice as full-time employment, and whose distributive share of income, gain, loss, or deduction, or whose guaranteed payments, or any combination thereof, is subject to the payment of estimated taxes, as provided in the "New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act," N.J.S.54A:1-1 et seq. "Full-time employee" shall not include any person who works as an independent contractor or on a consulting basis for the business.
"Qualified health care facility" means a building, complex of buildings or structural components of buildings previously licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services as a general hospital which has been granted a certificate of need to cease operation as a general hospital.
3. a. (1) A developer, upon application to and approval from the authority, shall be allowed a credit of 100 percent of its capital investment, made after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) but prior to its submission of documentation pursuant to subsection d. of this section, for the repurposing of a qualified health care facility. The repurposing of a qualified health care facility is its renovation and redevelopment as a health care and health support services center. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any project related to the repurposing of a qualified health care facility to meet the requirements of this section shall include as part of the agreement entered into for its renovation or redevelopment a project labor agreement with the New Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council labor organizations as specified by subsection c. of this section. The health care and health support services components of the repurposed facility shall comprise no less than 50 percent of the net leasable space of the repurposed facility, provided however that the 50 percent requirement may be waived by the authority if the requirement is not economically feasible or if the inclusion of further non-health care and non-health support services elements would improve the utilization and development of the health care and health support services components. To be eligible for any tax credits authorized under this section, a developer shall demonstrate to the authority, at the time of application, that the State's financial support of the proposed capital investment in a qualified health care facility will yield a net positive benefit to the State and local government, and, through a project pro forma analysis at the time of application, that the repurposing of the qualified health care facility is likely to be realized with the provision of tax credits at the level requested but is not likely to be accomplished by private enterprise without the tax credits.
(2) A developer shall make or acquire capital investments totaling not less than $10,000,000 in a qualified health care facility, at which the tenant businesses shall employ not fewer than 100 full-time employees be eligible for a credit under this section. A successor to a developer that acquires a repurposed qualified health care facility shall also be deemed to have acquired the capital investment made or acquired by the developer.
(3) Full-time employment for an accounting or privilege period shall be determined as the average of the monthly full-time employment for the period.
b. A developer shall apply for the credit within five years after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), and a developer shall submit its documentation for approval of its credit amount within eight years after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
c. (1) A project labor agreement entered into pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be binding on all contractors and subcontractors working on the project covered by the agreement, but may include provisions that permit contractors and subcontractors working on the project covered by the agreement to retain a percentage of their current workforce and may include provisions that the person who enters into the project labor agreement for a project covered by the agreement and any subcontractor of that person need not be a party to a labor agreement with the New Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council labor organizations other than for the project covered by the agreement.
(2) A project labor agreement entered into pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall, at a minimum, include provisions:
(a) advancing the interests of the person to whom this section applies, including the interests in cost, efficiency, quality, timeliness, skilled labor force, and safety;
(b) containing guarantees against strikes, lock-outs, or other similar actions;
(c) setting forth effective, immediate, and mutually binding procedures for resolving jurisdictional and labor disputes arising before the completion of the work;
(d) requiring that each contractor and subcontractor working on a project covered by the agreement have a United States Department of Labor registered apprenticeship program;
(e) conforming to any statutes, regulations, executive orders, and applicable local ordinances regarding the implementation of set-aside goals for women and minority owned businesses;
(f) including a publicly available plan regarding the shares of employment and apprenticeship positions in the project covered by the agreement for minority group members and women which conforms with the requirements of any statutes, regulations, executive orders, and applicable local ordinances and is agreed upon by the participating New Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council labor organizations and the developer of the qualified health care facility which is renovated and redeveloped to be repurposed as a health care and health support services center pursuant to the agreement, provided that any shares mutually agreed upon pursuant to this subparagraph shall be equal to or exceed the requirements of other statutes, regulations, executive orders, or applicable local ordinances;
(g) requiring the agreement for the project covered by the agreement to provide resources necessary to prepare for apprenticeship a number of women and minority members sufficient to enable compliance with the plan agreed upon pursuant to subparagraph (f) of this paragraph and provide that the use of those resources be administered jointly by the participating New Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council labor organizations and the developer; and
(3) Each person employed in the renovation and redevelopment of a qualified health care facility as a health care and health support services center by a developer who has entered into a project labor agreement pursuant to this section shall be paid a wage that is greater than or equal to the prevailing wage rate, as that rate is determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development pursuant to the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.).
d. (1) The amount of credit allowed shall, except as otherwise provided, be equal to the capital investment made by the developer, and shall be taken over a 10-year period, at the rate of one-tenth of the total amount of the developer's credit for each privilege period of the developer, beginning with the privilege period in which the developer is first approved by the authority as having met the investment capital and employment qualifications, subject to any reduction or disqualification as provided by subsection e. of this section as determined by annual review by the authority. In conducting its annual review, the authority may require a developer to submit any information determined by the authority to be necessary and relevant to its review.
(2) The amount of credit allowed may be applied against the corporation business tax liability otherwise due pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C.54:10A-5).
e. If, in any privilege period, the number of full-time employees employed at the repurposed qualified health care facility is fewer than 80 then the amount of credit otherwise allowed to the developer for the privilege period shall be reduced by the percentage determined by dividing 100 minus the number of employees employed at the facility for that privilege period by 100 and similarly for each subsequent privilege period, until the first privilege period for which documentation demonstrating the restoration of the number of full-time employees employed at the repurposed qualified health care facility to 100 has been reviewed and approved by the authority, for which privilege period and each subsequent privilege period the full amount of the credit shall be allowed.
f. The authority, in consultation with the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury, shall adopt rules in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) as are necessary to implement P.L. , c. (C. )(pending before the Legislature as this bill), including but not limited to: examples of and the determination of capital investment; the promulgation of procedures and forms necessary to apply for a credit; and provisions for credit applicants to be charged an initial application fee, and ongoing service fees, to cover the administrative costs related to the credit.
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill allows corporation business tax credits to developers for certain capital investments for repurposing qualified health care facilities.
Shifts in population, economic pressures and scientific advancement lead to the construction of new hospital facilities and the closing of superseded hospitals. These former hospitals are opportunities for redevelopment as centers for delivery of other health care services and health support services.
This bill targets facilities that were general hospitals but that have been granted a certificate of need to cease operation as a general hospital. These "qualified health care facilities" can be renovated and redeveloped as a health care and health support services center.
The bill allows the developer of a repurposed qualified health care facility, who enters into a project labor agreement for the work involved in the repurposing, and who makes at least a $10,000,000 capital investment in a repurposing to a facility that will have tenants with a total of 100 or more full-time employees, tax credits equal to 100 percent of the capital investment that may be applied against the corporation business tax. Annually, for ten years, the taxpayer may use a credit equal to 10 percent of the qualified capital investment.
