Report Title:

Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund

Description:

Enables public employees who have at least 10-years of service that were hired prior to 07/01/96, and who suffered a break in service prior to vesting to receive the same health benefits as those employees hired prior to the same date that did not suffer a break in service.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2546

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the employer-union health benefits trust fund.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 87A-35, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) This section shall apply to state and county contributions to the fund for employees who were hired after June 30, 1996, but before July 1, 2001, and who retire with fewer than twenty-five years of credited service, excluding sick leave; provided that this section shall not apply to the following employees, for whom state and county contributions shall be made as provided by section 87A-33:

(1) An employee hired prior to July 1, 1996, who [transfers]:

(A) Suffers a break in service; or

(B) Transfers employment after June 30, 1996[,];

and who cumulatively accrues at least ten years of credited service; and

(2) An employee hired prior to July 1, 1996, who has at least ten years of credited service prior to a transfer or break in service.

For the purposes of this section:

"Break in service" means to leave state or county employment for more than ninety calendar days before returning to state or county employment.

"Transfer" means to leave state or county employment and return to state or county employment within ninety calendar days."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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