REPORT TITLE:
PEHF-Contribution Refunds


DESCRIPTION:
Authorizes PEHF to refund excess contributions to public
employers and employees.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 87-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  The fund shall be used for the purpose of providing
 
 4 employee-beneficiaries and dependent-beneficiaries with a health
 
 5 benefits plan and a long-term care benefits plan; provided that
 
 6 the fund, including rate credits or reimbursements from any
 
 7 carrier or self-insured plan or any earning or interest derived
 
 8 therefrom, may be used to stabilize health benefits plan or
 
 9 long-term care benefits plan rates, and with approval of the
 
10 legislature through appropriation of funds for other expenses
 
11 necessary to effectuate these purposes.  Notwithstanding any law
 
12 to the contrary, any rate credit or reimbursement from any
 
13 carrier or self-insured plan in excess of funds used to stabilize
 
14 health benefits plan or long-term care benefits plan costs, and
 
15 for other expenses authorized by the legislature or any earning
 
16 or interest derived therefrom [shall]:
 
17      (1)  Shall be returned to the State or the county for
 
18           deposit into the appropriate general fund if the moneys
 
19           are returned from:
 

 
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 1     [(1)] (A)  A plan that provides health benefits to retirees
 
 2                or the surviving spouses of deceased retirees or
 
 3                employees killed in the performance of their duty
 
 4                whose coverage is financed in whole or in part by
 
 5                the State or by the county; or
 
 6     [(2)] (B)  A plan that provides health benefits to employees;
 
 7                provided that the amount returned to the general
 
 8                fund shall be only that portion financed by the
 
 9                State or by the county on behalf of the
 
10                employee[.]; and
 
11      (2)  As authorized by the board, may be used to improve the
 
12           benefits of health benefits plans described in section
 
13           87-22.3(1), returned to identifiable
 
14           employee-beneficiaries who participated in
 
15           ascertainable years to create the rate credit or
 
16           reimbursement or to any other employee-beneficiaries,
 
17           or used to reduce the employee-beneficiary's respective
 
18           share of monthly contributions to a health benefits
 
19           plan."
 
20      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
21 New statutory material is underscored.
 
22      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.