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HI SB2764

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2014

Primary Sponsor

Gil Keith-agaran

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Origin

Senate

2014 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands eligible business activities in state enterprise zones to include development, production, or energy storage of renewable energy by sustainable business corporations as defined in Hawaii Revised Statutes section 420D-2.

  • Adds nine new categories of renewable energy to enterprise zone eligibility: wind, solar, hydroelectric (falling water), biogas (landfill and sewage digester), geothermal, ocean (thermal, currents, waves), biomass (crops, residues, waste), biofuels, and hydrogen from renewable sources.

  • Maintains existing eligible activities including wind energy production for sale to public utilities, while complementing them with broader renewable energy options.

  • Effective date: July 1, 2050.

Legislative Description

State Enterprise Zones; Renewable Energy; Sustainable Business Corporations

Last Action

Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

2/14/2014

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means2/14/2014
Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing1/23/2014

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