Bill Text: HI SB1168 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Relating To Employee's Designation Of Beneficiary Form.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. [SB1168 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SB1168-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1168

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO EMPLOYEE'S DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY FORM.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 78-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  Upon discharge, an employee shall be entitled to all of the employee's accumulated vacation allowance plus the employee's current accrued vacation allowance to and including the date of discharge, notwithstanding that the current accrued vacation allowance may not have been recorded at the time.  If any employee dies with accumulated or current accrued vacation earned but not taken, an amount equal to the value of the employee's pay over the period of such earned vacation, and any earned and unpaid wages, shall be paid to the person or persons who may have been designated as the beneficiary or beneficiaries by the employee during the employee's lifetime in a [verified written] statement filed with the comptroller or other disbursing officer who issues warrants or checks to pay the employee for the employee's services as a public employee, or with the department in which the employee was employed, or, failing the designation, to the employee's estate."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2051.



 

Report Title:

Employee's Designation of Beneficiary Form

 

Description:

Allows a state department employee's designation of beneficiary form to be kept in the department where the employee is employed.  Eliminates the requirement that the designation be a verified written statement.  Takes effect on 1/1/2051.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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