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 S.B. No. 244, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend long-term care insurance to a public sector employee's children, siblings, and siblings' spouses.

The Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund Board of Trustees opposed this measure.

Your Committee believes that the Legislature should not prohibit the provision of long-term care insurance to more members of a public employee's family, if they wish to purchase such insurance at their own cost.

For purposes of further discussion, your Committee has left the effective date of July 1, 2050.

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 S.B. No. 244, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Health.