Report Title:

EUTF employee beneficiaries.

Description:

Eliminates confusion or misinterpretations regarding which "beneficiaries" of an employee killed in the performance of duty or of a deceased retiree are eligible to become EUTF employee-beneficiaries.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1376
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO 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 "employee-beneficiary" to read as follows:

""Employee-beneficiary" means:

(1)  An employee;

(2)  The [beneficiary] spouse of an employee who is killed in the performance of the employee's duty[;], until the spouse remarries;

(3)  [An employee who retired prior to 1961;] The child of an employee who is killed in the performance of the employee's duty, until the child marries or reaches the age of nineteen, whichever occurs first;

(4)  The [beneficiary] spouse of a retired member of the employees' retirement system[;], a county pension system[;], or a police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or a county, upon the death of the retired member[;] until the spouse remarries; or

(5)  The [surviving] child of a [deceased retired employee, if the child is unmarried and under the age of nineteen;] retired member of the employees' retirement system, a county pension system, or a police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or a county, upon the death of the retired member and until the child marries or reaches the age of nineteen, whichever occurs first;

[(6) The surviving spouse of a deceased retired employee, if the surviving spouse does not subsequently remarry;]

provided that the employee, the employee's [beneficiary, or the beneficiary of the deceased retired employee] spouse or child, or the retired member's spouse or child is deemed eligible by the board to participate in a health benefits plan or long-term care benefits plan under this chapter." 

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST