Report Title:
Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Child-Beneficiaries
Description:
Enables children in a parent-child relationship with an employee-beneficiary and who qualifies as a dependent of the employee-beneficiary for federal tax purposes to receive health benefits under the employee-beneficiary's health plan.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1272 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to dependent-beneficiaries of the hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 87A-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" to read as follows:
""Dependent-beneficiary" means an employee-beneficiary's:
(1) Spouse;
(2) Unmarried child deemed eligible by the board, including a legally adopted child, stepchild, foster child, [or] recognized natural child, or any other child who lives in a parent-child relationship with an employee-beneficiary and who qualifies as a dependent of the employee-beneficiary for federal tax purposes, who lives with the employee-beneficiary; and
(3) Unmarried child regardless of age who is incapable of self-support because of a mental or physical incapacity, which existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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