HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2145
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to address economic development by establishing, as state policy, an intent to complete or facilitate the completion of a list of ten specific projects within the next ten-year period.

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 226, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"PART   .  PROJECTS TO BE COMPLETED BY DECEMBER 31, 2023

§226-     Ten projects to be completed by December 31, 2023.  It is the policy of the State to complete or facilitate the completion of the following projects by December 31, 2023:

     (1)  Broadband infrastructure that provides coverage for one hundred per cent of the following land areas in the State: land zoned for business, commercial, industrial, hotel, or resort use and land used for higher education instruction or research;

     (2)  The airport modernization project of the department of transportation, as planned as of the effective date of this section;

     (3)  The harbor modernization project of the department of transportation, as planned as of the effective date of this section;

     (4)  The thirty-meter telescope on Mauna Kea;

     (5)  A regional bio-hazard laboratory under the University of Hawaii;

     (6)  The Diamond Head culinary institute on the slope of Diamond Head;

     (7)  The 690 Pohukaina street mixed use transit oriented development project;

     (8)  The locally preferred alternative mass transit system of the city and county of Honolulu;

     (9)  Renewable energy production facilities that are sufficient to meet the goals of the first decade of the Hawaii clean energy initiative; and

    (10)  A community college campus in West Hawaii."

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Economic Development; Specific Ten-Year Projects

Description:

Expresses as state policy an intent to complete or facilitate the completion of a list of 10 projects by 12/31/23.

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