STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1181

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 133

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 133, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' FRINGE BENEFITS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) and the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) update their financial status information on a more frequent basis by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the actuary of the EUTF to annually prepare a valuation report of the fund;

 

     (2)  Requiring the actuary to include an update of assumptions specific to the fund at least once every three years in the annual valuation of the fund; and

 

     (3)  Reducing the maximum period between experience studies of the ERS from five to three years.  

 

     The EUTF provided comments on this measure.

 


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the time period for the actuary to include an update of assumptions specific to the fund from at least once every three years to an unspecified amount of time;

 

     (2)  Changing the maximum period between experience studies of the ERS from three years to an unspecified amount of time; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 133, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 133, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair