Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 3175, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Employees Retirement System, with the approval of the Governor, to enter into an agreement with the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services for the extension of benefits of the hospital insurance system to employees of the State and its political subdivisions.

Specifically, this bill would:

Supportive testimony was received from the Employees' Retirement System, the East-West Center, and the East-West Center Employees Association.

After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by replacing its substance with the substance of H.B. No. 2713, H.D. 2, a measure previously reported from your Committee and approved by the House on Third Reading.

As amended, this bill is effective July 1, 2010, and allows Medicaid benefits under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to be extended to the employees of the East-West Center.

In addition, your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments to place the substance of this bill in the Session Laws of Hawaii and to make clear that its provisions only apply to the East-West Center.

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. 3175, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3175, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.