Bill Text: HI SB2107 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: EUTF; Disabled Individuals

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 33 [SB2107 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2107-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2047

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2107

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2107 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" for purposes relating to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to be consistent with the definition used for Medicare purposes pursuant to Title 42 United States Code section 426(b).

 

     The Attorney General submitted comments on the measure.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will expand the number of people who would be deemed a dependent-beneficiary and eligible for insurance benefits under the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.  Your Committee also finds that, although this measure will provide coverage to a broader range of unmarried children who are disabled, the costs of insurance coverage and implementation of benefits under the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund may potentially increase.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Keeping the "regardless of age" phrase that currently exists in the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as it relates to unmarried children who are disabled; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2107, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2107, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair