Bill Text: HI HB2439 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Definitions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-24 - (S) Act 036, 4/20/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1136). [HB2439 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2439-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3284

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2439

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2439, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to codify the current practice and interpretation of how health benefits are earned and credited to a public employee by the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

 

     Specifically, the measure amends the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund law by:

 

     (1)  Adding a new definition of "credited service"; and

 

     (2)  Clarifying the definitions of "employee" and "part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employee".

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure aligns statutory language with current practices of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

 

     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. 2439, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair