HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2919
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

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

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that sewer maintenance working supervisors, wastewater collection system inspection supervisors, wastewater collection system district supervisors, and wastewater collection system field services supervisors are currently not included under the definition of "sewer worker" by the employees' retirement system, despite the fact that these workers' are exposed to hazards that are similar to the other types of position classifications covered under that definition.

     The purpose of this Act is to expand the definition of "sewer worker" to include sewer maintenance working supervisors, wastewater collection system inspection supervisors, wastewater collection system district supervisors, and wastewater collection system field services supervisors.

     SECTION 2.  Section 88-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "sewer worker" to read as follows:

     ""Sewer worker":  an employee of any county who is employed in any of the following classifications[:] or classifications performing substantially the same work under classification titles not listed in this definition:  (1) sewer maintenance helper or wastewater collection system helper, (2) sewer maintenance repairer or wastewater collection system repairer, (3) sewer maintenance working supervisor, [(3)] (4) sewer maintenance supervisor I and II or wastewater collection system supervisor I and II, (5) wastewater collection system inspection supervisor, (6) wastewater collection system district supervisor, (7) wastewater collection system field services supervisor, [(4)] (8) gas detector, [(5)] (9) gas detector helper, [(6)] (10) gas detection supervisor, [(7)] (11) cesspool worker, [(8)] (12) cesspool pumping equipment operator I, [(9)] (13) cesspool pumping equipment operator II, [(10)] (14) cesspool pumping supervisor, or in any combination of these classifications."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on January 3, 2011.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Employees' Retirement System

Description:

Amends the definition of "sewer worker" for purposes of the Employees' Retirement System to include sewer maintenance working supervisors, wastewater collection system inspection supervisors, wastewater collection system district supervisors, and wastewater collection system field services supervisors.

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