Report Title:

Honolulu Police Department Package; Public Employees; Rehire; Retirees

Description:

Authorizes the State and counties to rehire, in certain circumstances, retired employees as permanent workers, without the retirees incurring any negative impact to their normal retirement benefits.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2576
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to public employees.

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

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to allow the State and counties to hire retired state and county employees in times of labor shortages or for difficult-to-fill occupational areas as full-time employees, and for longer than eighty-nine days, without the retiree incurring any negative impact to the retiree's 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-   Rehire of state and county retirees. (a)  Hiring authorities in the state and county governments may rehire retired state and county employees at up to one hundred per cent full-time equivalents or for more than eighty-nine consecutive days.  The positions filled by retired employees shall be limited to filling vacancies due to labor-shortages or to fill difficult-to-fill occupational areas, as determined by the hiring authority.  The appropriate hiring authority shall certify that the retiree was hired in accordance with chapter 76, if applicable.

(b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 88-21, 88‑42.5, 88-43, 88-45, and 88-46 or any other law to the contrary, retired state and county employees who are rehired pursuant to this section shall not earn retirement service credit, contribute to the retirement system, or gain additional retirement benefits as a result of their being rehired; provided that the retired employee shall continue to receive any and all benefits the retiree is otherwise entitled to receive under this chapter, chapter 87A, or chapter 87D, without penalty."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.

INTRODUCED BY:

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