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REPORT TITLE:
Public Employees Health Fund


DESCRIPTION:
Allows Public Employees Health Fund to offer different benefits
to retirants.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2327
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 87-22, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(b)  The board may contract for the following health
 
 4 benefits plans[; provided that benefits provided under any
 
 5 respective plan shall be equally available to all employee-
 
 6 beneficiaries and dependent-beneficiaries selecting the plan
 
 7 regardless of age,] as provided for below:
 
 8      (1)  An indemnity benefit plan or plans under which a
 
 9           carrier agrees to pay certain sums of money not in
 
10           excess of the actual expenses incurred for health
 
11           services;
 
12      (2)  A service benefit plan or plans under which payment is
 
13           made by a carrier under contracts with physicians,
 
14           hospitals, or other providers of health services or,
 
15           under certain conditions, payment is made by a carrier
 
16           to an employee-beneficiary;
 
17      (3)  Health maintenance organization plans, which provide or
 
18           arrange health services for members on a prepaid basis,
 
19           with professional services provided by physicians
 
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 1           practicing individually or as a group in a common
 
 2           center or centers;
 
 3      (4)  Plans to offer dental benefits through an indemnity
 
 4           plan or plans, a service benefit plan or plans, dental
 
 5           maintenance organization plans, or combinations
 
 6           thereof;
 
 7      (5)  Plans to offer prescription drug benefits through an
 
 8           indemnity plan or plans, a service benefit plan or
 
 9           plans, health maintenance organization plans, or
 
10           combinations thereof;
 
11      (6)  Plans to offer vision care benefits through an
 
12           indemnity plan or plans, a service benefit plan or
 
13           plans, health maintenance organization plans, or
 
14           combinations thereof; or
 
15      (7)  A noninsured schedule of benefits similar to any of the
 
16           schedule of benefits set forth in the health benefits
 
17           plans authorized in paragraphs (1) to (6)."
 
18      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
19      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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21                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________