Report Title:

Health Benefits; Contract Instructors; University of Hawaii

 

Description:

Provides certain instructors on contract with the University of Hawaii's outreach college with health benefits by including them as "employees" under the state employer-union trust fund law.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

437

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to health benefits.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 87A-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "employee" to read as follows:

     ""Employee" means an employee or officer of the State, county, or legislature,

     (1)  Including:

         (A)  An elective officer;

         (B)  A per diem employee;

         (C)  An officer or employee under an authorized leave of absence;

         (D)  An employee of the Hawaii national guard although paid from federal funds;

         (E)  A retired member of the employees' retirement system; the county pension system; or the police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or county;

         (F)  A salaried and full-time member of a board, commission, or agency appointed by the governor or the mayor of a county; [and]

         (G)  A person employed by contract for a period not exceeding one year, where the director of human resources development, personnel services, or civil service has certified that the service is essential or needed in the public interest and that, because of circumstances surrounding its fulfillment, personnel to perform the service cannot be obtained through normal civil service recruitment procedures[,]; and

         (H)  A person employed by contract as an instructor at the University of Hawaii outreach college who provides at least twenty hours of classroom instruction per week;

     (2)  But excluding:

         (A)  A designated beneficiary of a retired member of the employees' retirement system; the county pension system; or the police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or county;

         (B)  Except as allowed under paragraph (1)(G)[,] and (H), a person employed temporarily on a fee or contract basis; and

         (C)  A part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employee."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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