STAND. COM. REP. NO.  111-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2016

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2016 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require public retiree contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to be paid through withholdings of retirement benefit amounts from the Employees' Retirement System.

Three individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund and the Employees' Retirement System provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Moving the amendments from section 88-6(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to a new section in chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2091, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2016, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair