STAND. COM. REP. NO.  681-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2016

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require retirees and their beneficiaries to pay their share of the cost of health benefit plans provided through the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund through withholding from benefit amounts paid by the Employees' Retirement System.

 

     Several individuals testified in support of this measure.  An individual opposed this measure.  The Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund and the Employees' Retirement System commented on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

____________________________

SYLVIA LUKE, Chair