Bill Text: HI HB777 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB777 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB777-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  6

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 777

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 777 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HEALTH FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the continued support of retired state employees and their dependent-beneficiaries through the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund by establishing a formula for reimbursement of the state general fund from non-general funds for contributions made to retired state employees.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your committee finds it impractical to preemptively allot specific amounts of non-general funds for each retired state employee.  Establishing a formula to determine non-general fund reimbursements for health fund contributions to retired state employees and their dependent-beneficiaries is a more reasonable and workable approach.  

 

     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. 777 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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