Bill Text: HI SB1559 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Important Agricultural Lands; Incentives
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2011-07-12 - (S) Vetoed on 07-12-11 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1354). [SB1559 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB1559-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
PART I
SECTION 1. Section 205-46.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§205-46.5[]]
Agricultural processing facilities; permits; priority. (a) Any agency
subject to this chapter or title 13 that issues permits shall establish and
implement a procedure for the priority processing of permit applications and
renewals, at no additional cost to the applicant, for agricultural processing
facilities that process crops or livestock from an agribusiness; provided that
[the]:
(1) The majority of the lands
held, owned, or used by the agribusiness shall be land designated as important
agricultural lands pursuant to this part, excluding lands held, owned, or used
by the agribusiness in a conservation district[.]; or
(2) All of the crops or livestock processed at the facility is produced on land designated as important agricultural land pursuant to this part; provided that this requirement shall apply for at least twenty years following the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the facility.
Any priority permit processing procedure established pursuant to this section shall not provide or imply that any permit application filed under the priority processing procedure shall be automatically approved.
(b) As used in this section, "agribusiness" means a business primarily engaged in the care and production, or processing, of livestock, livestock products, poultry, poultry products, apiary, horticultural or floricultural products, the planting, cultivating, and harvesting of crops or trees, or the farming or ranching of any plant or animal species in a controlled salt, brackish, or fresh water environment."
PART II
SECTION 3. Chapter 269, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§269‑ Preferential energy rates; important agricultural lands. (a) The public utilities commission shall establish, by rule or decision and order, preferential rates for the purchase of energy that is used or consumed for agricultural activities on important agricultural lands, as designated pursuant to sections 205-44 and 205-45.
(b) Upon receipt of a bona fide request for the purchase of energy that is used or consumed for agricultural activities on important agricultural lands, and proof that the energy will be used or consumed in conjunction with agricultural activities on important agricultural lands, a public utility shall present the request for preferential rates to the public utilities commission for approval."
PART III
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Important Agricultural Lands; Incentives
Description:
Establishes incentives for important agricultural lands. (SB1559 HD2)
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