Report Title:

Employers; Public Assistance; Beneficiary Report

Description:

Requires the Department of Human Services to submit an annual report to the Legislature on private sector employers with more than fifty employees who receive medical care or benefits from public assistance programs. (HB334 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

334

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to public assistance.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§346- Private sector employers whose employees receive public assistance; annual report. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the director of human services shall annually prepare a public assistance program beneficiary employer report. The report shall include but not be limited to the following information for each private sector employer of fifty or more public assistance beneficiaries:

(1) The name and address of the employer;

(2) The number of public assistance program beneficiaries who are employees of the employer;

(3) The number of public assistance program beneficiaries who are spouses or dependents of employees of the employer; and

(4) The cost to the State for providing public assistance program benefits to the employer's employees and enrolled dependents.

(b) The report shall not include the names of any individual public assistance program beneficiaries and shall be subject to privacy standards pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The report shall be submitted annually to the legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session.

(c) For the purposes of this section, "public assistance program beneficiary" means a person who receives medical assistance or medical benefits under this chapter."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2099.