Bill Text: HI SB1091 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-17 - Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. [SB1091 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB1091-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to amend the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" contained in chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify eligibility of children for participation in fund benefit plans and to bring the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" into conformance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
SECTION 2. The Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund offers health benefits to the children of state and county employees and retirees. Due to the current construction of chapter 87A, when an employee or retiree passes away, children of the employee's or retiree's surviving spouse that were born after the employee's or retiree's death are eligible to participate in benefits plans offered by the fund. The legislature finds that children born after an employee's or retiree's death, that are not the natural child of the deceased employee or retiree, should not be eligible to participate in fund benefits plans because such children were not the children of the state or county employee or retiree. The legislature also finds that the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" should be amended to be consistent with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which prohibits restricting health insurance coverage to only unmarried dependents and denying health insurance coverage to married dependents.
SECTION 3. Section 87A-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" to read as follows:
""Dependent-beneficiary" means an employee-beneficiary's:
(1) Spouse;
(2) [Unmarried child] Child deemed
eligible by the board, including a legally adopted child, stepchild, foster
child, or recognized natural child who lives with the employee-beneficiary,[;]
but excluding a child born more than ten months after the death of an employee
killed in the performance of duty, born more than ten months after the death of
an active employee who was eligible to retire on the date of death, or born more
than ten months after the date of death of a retired employee-beneficiary;
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(3) Unmarried child regardless of age who is incapable of self-support because of a mental or physical incapacity, which existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on July 1, 2015.
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund
Description:
Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary."
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