Bill Text: HI SB2197 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Temporary Disability Insurance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-31 - Re-Referred to LCA, JDC/WAM. [SB2197 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2197-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2197
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELAting to temporary disability insurance.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 392-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§392-25  Eligibility for benefits.  (a)  An individual is eligible to receive temporary disability benefits if the individual has been in employment for at least fourteen weeks during each of which the individual has received remuneration in any form for twenty or more hours and earned wages of at least $400, during the fifty-two weeks immediately preceding the first day of disability.

     (b)  Eligibility determinations shall be made without regard to sick leave credits.  The amount of used and unused sick leave credits accrued by an individual prior to the disability shall not be a basis to deny temporary disability benefits.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, an employer or temporary disability benefits plan may require sick leave payments to be exhausted before disbursement of temporary disability benefits; provided that such requirement shall be disclosed in writing."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Temporary Disability Benefits; Eligibility; Sick Leave

 

Description:

Prohibits the denial of temporary disability benefits based on the amount of sick leave credits accrued prior to disability.

 

 

 

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