Report Title:

Employer-Union Trust Fund; Benefit Status Upon Return to Service

Description:

Clarifies that a public employee with credited service prior to 7/1/96, that suffers a break in service before or after 7/1/96, shall qualify for the retirement health benefits plan as it existed prior to 7/1/96; provided that the public employee meets certain requirements.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2066

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to public employee health benefits.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 87A-35, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) This section shall apply to state and county contributions to the fund for employees who were hired after June 30, 1996, but before July 1, 2001, and who retire with fewer than twenty-five years of credited service, excluding sick leave; provided that this section shall not apply to:

(1) An employee hired prior to July 1, 1996, who transfers employment after June 30, 1996[; and], and who subsequently returns to service and cumulatively accrues at least ten years of credited service; and

(2) An employee hired prior to July 1, 1996, who has at least ten years of credited service and who has had a break in service[.], regardless of when the break in service occurs.

For purposes of this section, "transfer" means to leave state or county employment and return to state or county employment within ninety calendar days."

SECTION 2. The board of trustees of the employer-union health benefits trust fund shall establish a process by which public employees affected by this Act shall be notified of the retirement health benefits options provided under this Act.

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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