Bill Text: HI HR106 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Judges
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-04-07 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR106 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HR106-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
requesting the legislative reference bureau to evaluate the establishment of separate medical and pension benefit plans for JUSTICES AND judges.
WHEREAS, state justices and judges are currently included among public employees who are members of the Employees' Retirement System and the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; and
WHEREAS, justices and judges may face potential conflicts of interest when a case is brought to them that deals with the rights and benefits of members of the Employees' Retirement System and the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, especially with regard to the rights and benefits of the members in class A of the Employees' Retirement System, which includes justices and judges; and
WHEREAS, on January 13, 2016, the Hawaii State Supreme Court issued an order assigning substitutes for all five justices of the Supreme Court in the matter of Dannenberg v. State of Hawaii, Supreme Court, No. SCAP-15-0000084, a court case regarding the scope of constitutionally mandated health benefits for state and county retirees; and
WHEREAS, it appears that the justices recused themselves in the Dannenberg case because of the justices' membership in the Employees' Retirement System and the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; and
WHEREAS, the exclusion of justices and judges from membership in the Employee's Retirement System and the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund may allow justices and judges to impartially hear cases involving the rights and benefits of members of those pension and medical benefit plans, especially the rights and benefits of members in class A of the Employees' Retirement System; and
WHEREAS, the exclusion of justices and judges from membership in the Employees' Retirement System and the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund would require the establishment of separate medical and pension benefit plans for judges; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, that the Legislative Reference Bureau is respectfully requested to evaluate the establishment of separate medical and pension benefit plans for justices and judges; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature Reference Bureau include in its evaluation:
(1) If separate medical and pension plans can be established; and
(2) If such plans can be established, what types of plans can be established; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2017; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Chief Justice, and the Administrative Director of the Courts.
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Judges
