STAND. COM. REP. NO. 379

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 1014

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1014 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM DISABILITY RETIREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System.

Your Committee finds that, in light of recent court rulings, this measure is necessary to clarify the Legislature's intent concerning the applicability of the Employees' Retirement System service-connected disability retirement and accidental death benefits. This measure will help to curb the unintended growth in the Employees' Retirement System's unfunded liability.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1014, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1014, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Government Operations,

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SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair