Report Title:

EUTF; Retired Employees

Description:

Requires the board to contract for individual, two-party family, and three-party or more family health benefits plans. Provides for the state's monthly contribution for employee-beneficiaries enrolled in two-party family plans.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1509

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

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-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§87A-16[]] Health benefits plan; carriers. (a) The board shall establish the health benefits plan or plans, which shall be exempt from the minimum group requirements of chapter 431.

(b) The board may contract for health benefits plans or provide health benefits through a noninsured schedule of benefits.

(c) The board shall contract for individual, two-party family, and three-party or more family health benefits plans for retirees under section 87A-33."

SECTION 2. Section 87A-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) Effective July 1, 2004, there is established a base monthly contribution for health benefit plans that the State, through the department of budget and finance, and the counties, through their respective departments of finance, shall pay to the fund, up to the following:

(1) $254 for each employee-beneficiary enrolled in supplemental medicare self plans;

(2) $           for each employee-beneficiary enrolled in supplemental medicare two-party family plans;

[(2)] (3) $787 for each employee-beneficiary enrolled in supplemental medicare three-party or more family plans;

[(3)] (4) $412 for each employee-beneficiary enrolled in non-medicare self plans; [and]

(5) $           for each employee-beneficiary enrolled in non-medicare two-party family plans; and

[(4)] (6) $1,089 for each employee-beneficiary enrolled in non-medicare three-party or more family plans.

The monthly contribution by the State or county shall not exceed the actual cost of the health benefit plan or plans and shall not be required to cover increased benefits above those initially contracted for by the fund for plan year 2004-2005. If both husband and wife are employee-beneficiaries, the total contribution by the State or county shall not exceed the monthly contribution for a supplemental medicare family or non-medicare family plan, as appropriate."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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