STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3065

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2708

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2708 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the definition of "employee-beneficiary", as the term relates to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, to include the surviving unmarried adult child of a deceased retired member if the child is incapable of self-support due to a mental or physical incapacity that existed before the child's reaching the age of nineteen years.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Disability and Communication Access Board; Hawaii Government Employees Association; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646; and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

Your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that certain disabled adults continue to receive health benefits or long-term care benefits.

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. 2708 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair