STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2783

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2734

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2734, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYEE'S DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY FORM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to reduce the burden on the Department of Accounting and General Services to maintain designation of beneficiary forms.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Allows a public employee's designation of beneficiary form to be kept in the department that employs the employee; and

(2) Permits the form to be filed and maintained electronically.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

Your Committee finds that pursuant to section 78-23(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, all public employee designation of beneficiary forms are required to be filed with and maintained by the Department of Accounting and General Services. This requirement has burdened the department by obligating it to maintain thousands of these forms. Your Committee believes that it would be more efficient for the forms to be filed with and maintained by the applicable employing department and to allow the forms to be filed and maintained electronically.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2734, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2734, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair