STAND. COM. REP. NO.465-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2531

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2531, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the expenditure of funds appropriated for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) reimbursement payments under Act 6, Third Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, shall be limited to the period beginning after September 11, 2001, through June 30, 2002, or until funds for these payments run out.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 2531, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2531, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair