STAND. COM. REP. NO. 372-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2102
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2102 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER‑UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Increased health care costs have had a tremendous impact on public sector employers, and thus, the taxpayer. Currently, the State is facing a $14 billion unfunded liability for other post employment benefits and facilitating the sustainability of benefits under the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. Your Committee finds that benefit costs overall have become unsustainable and tough decisions have to be made today so that even more drastic measures do not need to be taken in the future.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2102 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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