Report Title:

Retirement incentives

 

Description:

Clarifies that an employee who received a special retirement incentive benefit may be reemployed by the State without having to forfeit all benefits received if the employee's subsequent employment with the State is by contract-for-service for a period not to exceed one year in duration.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2215

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

 

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

SECTION 1. Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, is amended by amending section 117 to read as follows:

"SECTION 117. [No] (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), no employee who has received any benefit under this part shall be reemployed by the State in any capacity as follows:

(1) For an employee receiving a voluntary severance benefit under section 114, unless the gross amount of the voluntary severance benefit paid under section 114 is returned to the appropriate fund prior to the commencement of reemployment if the employee is reemployed within five years from the date of separation; or

(2) For an employee receiving a special retirement incentive benefit under section 115, unless all benefits derived from the specific retirement incentive benefit under section 115, as determined by the board of trustees of the employees' retirement system, are forfeited prior to the commencement of reemployment.

(b) An employee receiving a special retirement incentive benefit may be reemployed by the State without having to forfeit any benefits derived from section 115 if the employee's subsequent employment with the State is by contract-for-service in accordance with chapter 103D for a period not to exceed one year in duration."

SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

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 Statutory material to be repealed in bracketed and stricken.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

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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