Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1548 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Trustees of the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund to provide reimbursement to carriers providing long-term care benefits to employee-beneficiaries and related individuals.

Specifically, this measure authorizes the Board to reimburse the carrier a monthly amount of $5 for each enrolled employee-beneficiary on the condition that the carrier offers monthly payouts in $2,000 increments and at least half of the monthly payout is available to cover home- and community-based care.

Testimony in support of the measure was not received. Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the Director of Finance. Comments on the measure were received from the Acting Administrator of the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, and by making a technical nonsubstantive correction.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1548, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1548, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.