COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Chair

Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair

(SSCR650)

Authorizes any county Board of Water Supply serving a population of 500,000 or more persons, to establish an experimental modernization project to determine whether specific changes in its human resource program are desirable.

LAB, FIN

(SSCR719)

Requires public employers to provide paid leave for employees of at least four hours per year for personal matters involving the education or health of their minor children; provided that such leave shall not be credited against vacation or sick leave benefits. (SB205 SD3)

LAB, FIN

(SSCR949)

Requires the employer-union health benefits trust fund to establish flexible health benefit option plans for retirees to select benefits coverage under separate option categories. Allows employee-beneficiaries whose spouses are not public employees or retired public employees to enroll in plans.

LAB, FIN

(SSCR951)

Creates a new class H membership of the employees' retirement system. Allows employees in service on 12/31/04 to elect to covert their class C membership to class H membership. Requires employees hired on or after 1/1/05, to be designated as class H members. Establishes the parameters for unreduced retirement allowances, service retirement allowances, minimum cash balance benefits, ordinary disability retirement allowances, service-connected disability retirement allowances, death benefits, post retirement allowances, retirement allowance options, rollovers, and the determination of members' rights after separation from service for class H members. (SD2)

LAB, FIN

HCR 97

REQUESTING THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY OF A HYBRID PLAN.

PENDING REFERRAL TO LAB

H.D. 1

Restores Health Fund benefits to retirees. Requires annual audits of employee organization health benefit plans. Requires the employer contribution cap on monthly contributions for health benefits plans for retirees to be adjusted annually, beginning July 1, 2002. (PROPOSED HD1)

LAB, FIN

H.D. 1

Implements an Internal Revenue Service approved special pay plan for all eligible employees of the State and county which will not enhance or diminish existing special pay benefits. Allows employees under the age of fifty-five who elect early withdrawal from the special pay plan within sixty days of the effective date of separation from service to be reimbursed by the employer the difference between the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)and any Medicare tax savings to the employee and any early withdrawal penalty imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. Also, reenacts leaves of absence law relating to the pay of officers and employees on active military service and nonforfeiture for absence. (PROPOSED HD1)

LAB

H.D. 1

Extends workers' compensation insurance exemption to employers having distributional interest of at least 50% of a limited liability company or having transferable interest of at least 50% of a limited liability partnership. (PROPOSED HD1)

LAB, CPC

Chair