Bill Text: HI HB962 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: ERS; Post Retirement Allowance Increase; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB962 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB962-Introduced.html

Report Title:

ERS; Post Retirement Allowance Increase; Appropriation

 

Description:

Increases the post retirement allowance to three per cent for retirants who have been retired for at least ten years.  Appropriates funds for the post retirement allowance increase.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

962

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to the employees' retirement system.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 88-90, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§88-90  Post retirement allowances.  (a)  There shall be payable to each person receiving any pension, annuity, or retirement allowance, a post retirement allowance which shall consist of an amount equivalent to one and one-half per cent of the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance as originally computed, approved, and paid.  This benefit shall be added to the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance on the first day of July in each year following June 30, 1961, as follows:

     (1)  To each person receiving a pension, annuity, or retirement allowance on June 30, 1961, payment of the benefit shall commence on July 1, 1961, except that after June 30, 1963, the monthly benefits payable under this subsection shall be computed and paid on the basis of the number of years that has elapsed since the person entitled thereto first became the recipient of the pension, annuity, or retirement allowance from which the benefit is derived.

     (2)  To each person first receiving a pension, annuity, or retirement allowance after June 30, 1961, payment of the benefit shall commence on the first of July following the calendar year in which the payment of the pension, annuity, or retirement allowance is effective.

     (b)  After June 30, 1970, the post retirement allowance shall consist of an amount equivalent to two and one-half per cent of the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance as originally computed and paid.  This benefit shall be payable on the first day of July in each year following June 30, 1970, as follows:

     (1)  To each person, who on June 30, 1970, was receiving a post retirement allowance as described under subsection (a) hereof, payment of the benefit shall commence on July 1, 1970.

     (2)  To each person first receiving a pension, annuity, or retirement allowance after December 31, 1968, payment of the benefit shall commence on the first day of July following the calendar year in which the payment of the pension, annuity, or retirement allowance is effective.

     (c)  After June 30, 2009, the post retirement allowance shall consist of an amount equivalent to three per cent of the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance as originally computed and paid for any retirant who has been retired for at least ten years."

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009-2010 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 to provide for post retirement allowance increases provided pursuant to this Act.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the employees' retirement system for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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