Bill Text: HI SB1153 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. [SB1153 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SB1153-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to health.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§87A-23 Health
benefits plan supplemental to medicare. The board
shall establish a health benefits plan, which takes into account benefits
available to an employee-beneficiary and spouse under medicare, subject to the
following conditions:
(1) There
shall be no duplication of benefits payable under medicare. The plan under this section, which shall be
secondary to medicare, when combined with medicare and any other plan to which
the health benefits plan is subordinate under the National Association of
Insurance Commissioners' coordination of benefit rules, shall provide benefits
that approximate those provided to a similarly situated beneficiary not
eligible for medicare;
(2) The
State, through the department of budget and finance, and the counties, through
their respective departments of finance, shall pay to the fund a contribution
equal to an amount not less than the medicare part B premium, and the
medicare part D premium effective July 1, 2019, for each of the following
who are enrolled in the medicare part B [medical] or part D
insurance plan: (A) an
employee-beneficiary who is a retired employee, (B) an employee-beneficiary's
spouse while the employee-beneficiary is living, and (C) an
employee-beneficiary's spouse, after the death of the employee-beneficiary, if
the spouse qualifies as an employee-beneficiary. For purposes of this section, a "retired
employee" means retired members of the employees' retirement system;
county pension system; or a police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of
the State or a county as set forth in chapter 88. If the amount reimbursed by the fund under
this section is less than the actual cost of the medicare part B [medical]
or part D insurance plan due to an increase in the medicare part B [medical]
or part D insurance plan rate, the fund shall reimburse each
employee-beneficiary and employee-beneficiary's spouse for the cost increase
within thirty days of the rate change.
Each employee-beneficiary and employee-beneficiary's spouse who becomes
entitled to reimbursement from the fund for medicare part B or part D
premiums after July 1, 2006, shall designate a financial institution
account into which the fund shall be authorized to deposit reimbursements. This method of payment may be waived by the fund
if another method is determined to be more appropriate;
(3) The
benefits available under this plan, when combined with benefits available under
medicare or any other coverage or plan to which this plan is subordinate under
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' coordination of benefit
rules, shall approximate the benefits that would be provided to a similarly
situated employee-beneficiary not eligible for medicare;
(4) All
employee-beneficiaries or dependent-beneficiaries who are eligible to enroll in
the medicare part B [medical] or part D insurance plan shall
enroll in that plan as a condition of receiving contributions and participating
in benefits plans under this chapter.
This paragraph shall apply to retired employees, their spouses, and the
surviving spouses of deceased retirees and employees killed in the performance
of duty; and
(5) The
board shall determine which of the employee-beneficiaries and
dependent-beneficiaries, who are not enrolled in the medicare part B [medical]
or part D insurance plan, may participate in the plans offered by the
fund."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Health Benefits Plans; Medicare Supplement Plans; Medicare Part D
Description:
Requires health benefit plans supplemental to Medicare to include contributions equal to Medicare part D premiums effective 7/1/2019, in addition to Medicare part B premiums.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
