SB2412 SD1

Report Title:

Appropriation to the Small Business Development Center

 

Description:

Appropriates $           to extend the economic development program of the small business development center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. (SD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2412
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for small business development.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that 24.4 per cent of small business owners in Hawaii believe their lack of knowledge of how to operate a business negatively impacts their business. This represents nine thousand five hundred small businesses in the State out of approximately thirty-nine thousand. The small business development center of the University of Hawaii at Hilo provides entrepreneurial skills development by facilitating knowledge transfer and planned change using individual consulting, management training, research, and advocacy.

The legislature further finds that recession and the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have magnified the need to develop new entrepreneurial skills and to create and save jobs. The small business development center has demonstrated the ability to respond to these needs. The center is a statewide partnership between the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the U.S. Small Business Administration in its twelfth year of operation. With its current resources, the small business development center works with approximately one thousand small businesses annually or 10.5 per cent of those expressing a need.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate moneys to the University of Hawaii at Hilo to extend the delivery of the small business development center services to an additional one thousand seven hundred small business owners annually. The center will expand services to assist small business owners in better managing their own businesses which, in turn, will contribute to the State's economic success.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, to extend the economic development program of the small business development center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo as follows:

1. $        for the east Hawaii center in Hilo to add one consultant position and one part-time statewide training position;

2. $        for the west Hawaii center in Kailua-Kona to fund one consultant and one administrative assistant position plus office expenses;

3. $        for the Kauai center in Lihue to fund rental expenses to correct a deficiency in the current facility;

4. $        for the Maui center in Kihei to add one consultant position;

5. $        to establish a central Oahu satellite in Wahiawa or its environs by adding one consultant position;

6. $        for the downtown Honolulu center to fund one consultant and one administrative assistant position;

7. $        to establish an east Oahu satellite in Kaimuki or its environs by adding one consultant position;

8. $        to establish a leeward Oahu center in Waipahu or its environs by adding an administrative assistant position and an office;

9. $        to establish a windward Oahu satellite in Kailua or its environs by adding one consultant position;

10. $        to increase the statewide research capabilities of the business research library in Kihei by adding one research assistant position;

11. $        to continue the statewide rural development center program in Hilo by continuing a consulting director position and an administrative assistant position; and

12. $        to create a statewide high technology center program in Manoa by adding a consulting director position, a consultant position, and an administrative assistant.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.