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

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

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.

INTRODUCED BY:

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