STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1424-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2761

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2761, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND DEFINITION OF "DEPENDENT-BENEFICIARY","

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund definition of "dependent-beneficiary" to clarify eligibility of children for participation in fund benefit plans and conform to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

 

     The Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Board of Trustees and University of Hawaii Professional Assembly supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical amendment that clarifies that coverage is excluded for dependent children that are added to their plans more than ten months after the death of active employees or retirees.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2761, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2761, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair