Report Title:

Employees Retirement System; Emergency Medical Technicians

Description:

Allows emergency medical technicians to retire without penalty upon accruing 25 years of credited service.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

783

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the employee's retirement system for emergency medical technicians.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 88, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§88- Unreduced allowance on service retirement; when applicable. In addition to those positions identified in section 88-74(1), and notwithstanding any law in this part that requires a member to attain age fifty-five in order to qualify for an unreduced service retirement allowance, if the member has at least twenty-five years of credited service as an emergency medical technician, of which the last five or more years prior to retirement is credited service in that capacity, then upon retirement and irrespective of age, that member's service retirement allowance shall not be reduced for actuarial purposes."

SECTION 2. Section 88-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Emergency medical technician": any regularly employed member of any county of the State whose principal duty is to provide emergency medical services."

SECTION 3. Section 88-281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) If a member has at least twenty-five years of credited service as a sewer worker [or as a], water safety officer, or emergency medical technician, of which the last five or more years prior to retirement is credited in such a capacity, then the sewer worker [or], water safety officer, or emergency medical technician shall be eligible to receive a retirement benefit unreduced for age after the member has terminated service."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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