REPORT TITLE:
Public Employees Health Fund


DESCRIPTION:
Authorizes the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees Health
Fund to use reimbursements and rate credits to benefit
identifiable employee-beneficiaries.  (HB1041 HD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 87-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  The fund shall be used for the purpose of providing
 
 4 employee-beneficiaries and dependent-beneficiaries with a health
 
 5 benefits plan and a long-term care benefits plan; provided that
 
 6 the fund, including rate credits or reimbursements from any
 
 7 carrier or self-insured plan or any earning or interest derived
 
 8 therefrom, may be used to stabilize health benefits plan or long-
 
 9 term care benefits plan rates, and with approval of the
 
10 legislature through appropriation of funds for other expenses
 
11 necessary to effectuate these purposes.  Notwithstanding any law
 
12 to the contrary, any rate credit or reimbursement from any
 
13 carrier or self-insured plan in excess of funds used to stabilize
 
14 health benefits plan or long-term care benefits plan costs, and
 
15 for other expenses authorized by the legislature or any earning
 
16 or interest derived therefrom [shall]:
 
17      (1)  Shall be returned to the State or the county for
 
18           deposit into the appropriate general fund if the moneys
 
19           are returned from:
 

 
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 1     [(1)] (A)  A plan that provides health benefits to retirees
 
 2                or the surviving spouses of deceased retirees or
 
 3                employees killed in the performance of their duty
 
 4                whose coverage is financed in whole or in part by
 
 5                the State or by the county; or
 
 6     [(2)] (B)  A plan that provides health benefits to employees;
 
 7                provided that the amount returned to the general
 
 8                fund shall be only that portion financed by the
 
 9                State or by the county on behalf of the
 
10                employee[.];
 
11      (2)  As authorized by the board, may be:
 
12           (A)  Used to improve the benefits of health benefits
 
13                plans described in section 87-22.3(1);
 
14           (B)  Returned to identifiable employee-beneficiaries
 
15                who participated in ascertainable years to create
 
16                the rate credit or reimbursement or to any other
 
17                employee-beneficiaries; or
 
18           (C)  Used to reduce the employee-beneficiary's
 
19                respective share of monthly contributions to a
 
20                health benefits plan;
 
21           provided that where a carrier reimburses the fund for
 
22           any premium previously paid as a dividend or by other
 
23           means, the fund shall reimburse employee-benefits at
 

 
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 1           the applicable rate of the employee's contribution plus
 
 2           the amount the employer contributed for the employee in
 
 3           lieu of a wage increase."
 
 4      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 5 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 6      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.