STAND. COM. REP. NO.809

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 572

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 572, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to use excess rate credits and reimbursements in the Public Employees Health Fund (Health Fund) to fund a study to analyze and review benefit plans.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association supported this measure.

The United Public Workers, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Health Fund Board of Trustees, and Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting the substance of H.B. No. 572 in its original form. As amended, this bill would enable the Health Fund to give employee-beneficiaries:

(1) A return of their portion of the rate credits or reimbursements earned during ascertainable years of participation; or

(2) A reduction in their respective share of monthly contributions to a health benefits plan.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made to conform with standard drafting conventions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 572, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 572, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair