Report Title:

Hawaii public employees health fund; audits

Description:

Requires annual audits of employee organization health benefits plans.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

570

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the hawaii public employees health fund.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 87-22.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§87-22.3 Determination of health benefits plans[.]; audits of employee organization health benefits plans. Pursuant to section 87-4, the board of trustees shall provide health benefits to employee-beneficiaries in the following manner:

(1) For those employee-beneficiaries who are not participating in a health benefits plan of an emp1oyee organization (hereafter "nonparticipating emp1oyee-beneficiaries"), the board of trustees shall establish health benefits plans and the requirements for eligibi1ity under the health benefits p1ans; or

(2) For employee-beneficiaries who participate in the health benefits plan of an employee organization, the board of trustees shal1 pay a monthly contribution for each employee-beneficiary, in the amount provided in section 87-4(a), or the actual month1y cost of the coverage, whichever is less, towards the purchase of health benefits under the health benefits plan of an employee organization. To ensure the financial integrity and cost effectiveness of any health benefits plan of an employee organization, the board shall annually audit each health benefits plan offered by an employee organization. The costs of the audits shall be borne by the fund."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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