Bill Text: HI HB1041 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Medicare Part B Reimbursements
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [HB1041 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1041-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1246
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 1041
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1041, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate Medicare Part B reimbursements for employee-beneficiaries who are hired after June 30, 2011, and their spouses.
Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Derek Mizuno, Deputy Executive Director, Hawaii Government Employees Association.
Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from Kris Coffield, Legislative Director, IMUAlliance; and ten individuals.
Your Committee received comments on this measure from David M. Louie, Attorney General, Department of the Attorney General; Kalbert Young, Director, Department of Budget and Finance; the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.
Your Committee finds that eliminating Medicare Part B reimbursements is one way of containing the ever-increasing cost of retiree health benefits paid by state and county employers. Furthermore, this measure will facilitate the sustainability of benefits under the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.
Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the Medicare Part B reimbursement is tied to the annual "standard" Medicare Part B premium and providing a definition for that term.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1041, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1041, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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