Report Title:

Retirees; Rehiring

 

Description:

Authorizes state and county governments to rehire retired employees during labor shortages and for difficult-to-fill occupational areas without retirement benefit penalty.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2850

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE REHIRING OF RETIREES.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to allow state and county governments to rehire retired employees in labor shortages and difficult-to-fill occupational areas for longer than eighty-nine days and up to one hundred per cent full-time equivalents, without the retirees incurring any negative impact on their normal retirement benefits.

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 88, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§88-    Rehired state and county retirees.  (a)  Appointing authorities in the state and county governments may rehire retired state and county government employees at up to one hundred per cent full-time equivalents and for more than eighty-nine consecutive days.  The positions filled by retired state and county government employees under this section shall be limited to labor shortage and difficult-to-fill occupational areas as determined by the appointing authorities.  The director of human resources development, for employees hired by the state executive branch; the director of human resources of the judiciary, for employees hired by the judiciary; or the respective chief human resources management executive for the respective counties, for employees hired by a county, shall certify that the retiree was hired in accordance with applicable civil service laws.

     (b)  Sections 88-21, 88-42.5, 88-43, 88-45, and 88-46, and any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding, retired state and county government employees who are hired under this section shall not earn retirement service credit, contribute to the retirement system, or gain additional retirement system benefits as a result of their employment; provided that the retiree shall continue to receive the entitled normal retirement benefits without penalty."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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