STAND. COM. REP. 750
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 391
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 391, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that government employees and their dependents do not lose their health care coverage during the transition from the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund (HPEHF) to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF).
This bill:
(1) Extends HPEHF for one additional year, through June 30, 2004, and delays EUTF from offering health benefit plans until July 1, 2004;
(2) Makes the employer base monthly contributions for retirees take effect retroactive to July 1, 2001, instead of July 1, 2003;
(3) Requires the employer base composite monthly contribution for retirees to be adjusted annually beginning July 1, 2002, instead of July 1, 2004; and
(4) Appropriates an unspecified amount out of the general fund for unanticipated and unbudgeted increases in HPEHF payments in fiscal year 2002-2003.
The Hawaii Government Employees Association and the Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance and the City and County of Honolulu Department of Human Resources opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct technical drafting errors.
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. 391, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 391, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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