Report Title:
Reciprocal Beneficiaries
Description:
Requires establishment of reciprocal beneficiary family benefits coverage for an employee reciprocal beneficiary, the other party to the relationship, dependent beneficiaries, unmarried children of the non-employee reciprocal beneficiary under age 19, and surviving beneficiaries.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
20 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to reciprocal beneficiaries.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§87A- Reciprocal beneficiary family coverage; reciprocal beneficiary employees. (a) The board of trustees shall establish a reciprocal beneficiary family coverage benefits plan for an employee who is a reciprocal beneficiary under chapter 572C and elects to enroll in reciprocal beneficiary family coverage.
(b) As used in this section, reciprocal beneficiary family coverage means coverage under a health benefits plan that insures, originally or upon subsequent amendment, an employee who is a reciprocal beneficiary, the other party to the employee's reciprocal beneficiary relationship, and any dependent beneficiary of the employee, any unmarried child of the non-employee reciprocal beneficiary under age nineteen, or a surviving beneficiary of the employee."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.
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