Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development and Business Concerns and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 813 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend Enterprise Zone Program tax benefits to an expanded list of health care institutions.

WC Advisors, Inc., Wahiawa Hospital Association, Wahiawa General Hospital, Wahiawa-Central Oahu Health Center, Central Oahu Physician Hospital Organization, Pacific Health Community, Inc., Pacific Sports Care, Matthews Marketing, TBG Development, John A. Burns School of Medicine, and several individuals supported this bill. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism opposed this bill. The Department of Taxation commented on this bill.

Your Committees find that this bill would expand economic opportunities to the health care industry in Hawaii. The enterprise zone tax benefits would stimulate this potentially dynamic industry, and would attract business to our State.

Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2015, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Business Concerns and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 813, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 813, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.