STAND. COM. REP. 783
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 986
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. 986, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEATH BENEFITS OF SURVIVING CHILDREN OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is allow surviving dependent children who are eligible to receive Employees' Retirement System (ERS) death benefits until age 18, to continue to receive these benefits after the age of 18 while a full-time student or after becoming a full-time student, and so long as the child remains a full-time student, until reaching the age of 24.
ERS commented on this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure to:
(1) Specify that the lump sum benefit payable under section 88-84(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), will be made to dependent children older than 18 but younger than 24 years of age who are full-time students;
(2) Clarify that recurring benefit payments under sections 88-85, 88-163(a), and 88-286(b) and (c), HRS, to dependent children who are 18 or older but less than 24 years of age, will occur both if the child is a full-time student, or becomes a full-time student, for so long as the child remains a full-time student;
(3) Clarify that payments under section 88-85, HRS, made to a dependent father or dependent mother will discontinue should a dependent child of 18 to less than 24 years of age later become a full-time student and become eligible for payments under the section; and
(4) Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 986, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 986, 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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