Bill Text: HI HB437 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and McKelvey, Pine, Tokioka excused (3). [HB437 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB437-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  45-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 437

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 437 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support members of the military by providing extended health benefits coverage under the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) for dependent-beneficiaries who are unmarried full-time students and called to active duty in federal service while a member of the military reserves.

 

     A concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

 

     EUTF rules limit health benefits eligibility for dependent-beneficiaries to under age 24 for those who are full-time students and unmarried children of employee-beneficiaries.  Your Committee finds there may be occasions when these dependent-beneficiaries may lose periods of coverage after being called to active military duty.  This bill seeks to restore these lost health benefits.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Requiring that the administrative rules implementing this measure be adopted pursuant to the requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  Making the amount of extended health benefits coverage the length of time that the dependent-beneficiary was deployed after being called to active duty while a full-time student under the age of 24; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 437, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 437, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair