Bill Text: HI HB175 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: HSAC Package; Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Counties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB175 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB175-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  778

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 175

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 175, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide county representation on the Board of Trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF Board) by requiring that one of the EUTF Board trustees be appointed by the mayors and be approved by the Hawaii State Association of Counties (HSAC).

 

     HSAC, the Departments of Budget and Fiscal Services and Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, and the treasurer of HSAC testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate continued discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 175, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 175, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair