STAND. COM. REP. 2696

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3019

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3019 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an income tax credit for health benefits for members of collective bargaining unit 12 (police officers).

Specifically, the amount of the income tax credit is $80 per month or $960 per year for members of collective bargaining unit 12 who receive single health coverage, and $200 per month or $2,400 per year for members who receive family health coverage.

Your Committee finds that the cost of health care benefits has increased for police officers. To offset the increase, this measure provides a health benefits income tax credit for unit 12 members who receive single or family health coverage.

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

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. 3019, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3019, S.D. 1.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair