SB2609

Report Title:

Enterprise Zone; Call Center

 

Description:

Expands the definition of "call center" to include a business providing customer and technical support services to health care providers.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2609
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to enterprise zones.

 

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

SECTION 1. The state enterprise zone law offers state, county, and other incentives to certain types of businesses that increase their hiring in zones selected by the counties and approved by the governor. Enterprise zones are intended to stimulate business and industrial growth in low income or high unemployment areas to revitalize those areas.

The purpose of this Act is to expand the scope of the enterprise zone law by including businesses that provide customer and technical support services to health care providers within the definition of "call center".

SECTION 2. Section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "call center" to read as follows:

""Call center" means a business providing service at an establishment in which customer and technical support service for manufacturing companies, health care providers, computer hardware and software companies, credit collection services, product fulfillment services, or disaster management services, are provided by telephone; provided that the business shall not include telemarketing or sales."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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