STAND. COM. REP. NO. 596

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1290
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1290 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH BENEFITS FOR PART-
     TIME, TEMPORARY, AND SEASONAL OR CASUAL EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to offer medical benefits to
part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual public employees at
no cost to the employer.

     Under this bill, the cost of the medical benefits provided
would be borne by the employee.

     Your Committee finds that this bill would provide medical
benefits to part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual public
employees at no cost to the public employer and would enable such
employees to obtain coverage at a lower premium rate.

     Your Committee has made only minor technical, nonsubstantive
amendments for the purposes of clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1290, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1290, S.D. 1.

 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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