Bill Text: HI SB1066 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Appointment; Fiduciary Duties; Independent Attorney Quorum; Department of Human Resources
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1066 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1066-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 726
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1066
S.D. 2
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to transfer the employer-union health benefits trust fund ("EUTF") to the Department of Human Resources Development and to change the size, composition, and appointment process of the board of trustees of the trust fund.
Furthermore, this measure also authorizes the board of trustees to procure benefit plan carriers, without regard to the public procurement process, and to retain an attorney who possesses Employee Retirement and Income Security Act employee benefits experience and who is independent of the Attorney General.
Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from Kalbert K. Young, Director, Department of Budget and Finance; and the Department of the Attorney General.
Your Committee received comments on this measure from Aaron S. Fujioka, Administrator, State Procurement Office.
Your Committee finds that there is widespread agreement among interested stakeholders that the EUTF is not operating as it was originally intended to operate and instead has created serious problems for state and county employees and their public employers. This measure contains several significant reforms that will eliminate many of the problems that currently make the EUTF ineffective and expensive.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making clarifying amendments as well as 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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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