Report Title:

Pension and retirement systems; membership

Description:

Allows the Legislature to hire retirees, without bifurcating their employment.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1728

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to pension and retirement systems.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 88-43, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§88-43 Persons ineligible for membership; optional membership. Except with respect to faculty members or lecturers employed on one or more campuses of the University of Hawaii who hold multiple part-time appointments or positions, in such capacities, any of which may be less than one-half of a full-time equivalent but all of which, when added together, aggregate to at least one-half of a full-time equivalent position, the board of trustees may deny membership to any class of part-time employees or persons engaged in temporary employment of three months or less, or it may, in its discretion, make optional with persons in such classes their individual entrance into membership; provided that no officer or employee entering service after January 1, 1928, who is entitled to become a member of any pension system under part III shall be entitled to become a member of the system.

Elective officers shall be eligible for membership, and their individual entrance into membership shall be at their option.

Legislative session employees who are otherwise eligible for membership may, at their option, decline entrance into membership."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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