Bill Text: HI HB382 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Employees' Retirement System; Division of Pension
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-18 - The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB382 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-HB382-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the employees' retirement system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 88, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"88- Qualified domestic relations orders; payments to alternate payees. (a) The system shall make death or retirement benefit payments or refund contributions only as directed by law and rules, or as required by a qualified domestic relations order. Such benefit payments shall include allowances for the cost of living.
(b) An alternate payee shall qualify for death or retirement benefit payments or refund contributions pursuant to this section upon meeting the system's requirements for application and submission of a domestic relations order. If upon review and approval of an alternate payee's application, the system determines that the domestic relations order submitted by the alternate payee is a qualified domestic relations order, the system shall, subject to the limitations of applicable laws and this chapter, pay benefits to the alternate payee in accordance with the qualified domestic relations order at the time benefits become payable to, or if contributions are withdrawn by, the member. Any determination that an order is a qualified domestic relations order is voidable or subject to modification if the system determines that the provisions of the order have been changed or that circumstances relevant to the determination have changed.
(c) This section shall not be construed to invalidate the process established by section 571-52.
(d) The system shall adopt rules under chapter 91 to implement this section.
(e) The system may charge an administrative fee payable by the member or retirant and the alternate payee in proportion to the benefits paid. The administrative fee may be deducted from the benefit payment.
(f) As used in this section:
"Alternate payee" means a former spouse or former civil union partner of a member or retirant who is recognized by a domestic relations order as having a right to receive all or a portion of the benefits payable by the system with respect to that member or retirant.
"Domestic relations order" means a judgment, decree, or order, including approval of a property settlement agreement, that:
(1) Relates to the provision of alimony payments or marital property rights to a former spouse or former civil union partner; and
(2) Is made pursuant to a domestic relations law of this State or another state.
"Qualified domestic relations order" means a domestic relations order that:
(1) Creates or recognizes the right of an alternate payee, or assigns to an alternate payee, the right to receive all or a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a member or retirant under the system; and
(2) Directs the system to disburse benefits to the alternate payee.
"State" means the fifty states of the United States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico."
SECTION 2. Section 88-91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§88-91 Exemption from taxation and
execution. [The] Except as provided in section 88- ,
the right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement
allowance, to the return of contributions, the pension, annuity, or
retirement allowance itself, any optional benefit or death benefit, any other
right accrued or accruing to any person under this part and the moneys in the
various funds created under this part are exempted from any tax of the State
and, except as in section 88-92 provided, shall not be subject to execution,
garnishment, or any other process and shall be unassignable except as in
this part specifically provided."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2018.
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Report Title:
Employees' Retirement System; Division of Pension
Description:
Requires the Employees' Retirement System to divide pensions between a retired employee and non-employee former spouse or civil union partner, upon application and pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order.
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