Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund

State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Government. [SB-442] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Pensions ] [Retirement ]
Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of benefits if the retirant is employed in a position identified for succession planning purposes. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Passed Second Reading As Amended In Hd 1 And Referred To The Committee(s) On Fin With Representative(s) Reyes Oda Voting Aye With Reservations; Representative(s) Pierick Voting No (1) And Representative(s) Cochran, Ward Excused (2). on 03/20/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Government. [HB-214] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ] [Pensions ] [Retirement ] [Public Safety ] [Education ]
Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of benefits under the System or the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund if the retirant is employed in a position needed for succession planning, as a law enforcement officer stationed at a public school as a resource officer, as an investigator, or in a management position excluded from collective bargaining, subject to certain conditions. Requires the director of human resources of the appropriate state jurisdiction (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama Conference Committee Meeting Will Reconvene On Friday, 04-25-25 At 4:30pm In Conference Room 325. on 04/25/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Government. [SB-99] [Education ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ] [Retirement ] [Public Safety ]
Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the Department of Education or the Department of the Attorney General, respectively, as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill positions, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Director of Human Resources of the appropriate state jurisdiction or the human resources management chief executive of each (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Angus McKelvey Referred To Lbt, Wam. on 01/16/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Health Benefits. [HB-2518] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Insurance ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ]
Amends the state and county contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for employees hired after 6/30/2024.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki The Committee(s) On Lgo Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 02/02/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [SB-3217] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Insurance ] [Pensions ]
Requires the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund base composite monthly contribution to be adjusted annually beginning 1/1/2025 by increasing the contribution in effect on 1/1/2024 by 5.2 per cent, and thereafter based on the changes in Medicare part B premiums for the previous plan year.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Henry Aquino Pass First Reading on 03/07/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Health Care. [HB-1966] [Healthcare ] [Reproductive Rights ] [Insurance ]
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. Effective 1/1/2025.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama The Committee(s) On Hlt Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 02/02/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Health Benefits. [SB-2531] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Insurance ] [Public Health ]
Amends the state and county contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for employees hired after 6/30/2024.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Michelle Kidani Referred To Lbt, Wam. on 01/24/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Health Care. [SB-2605] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ] [Reproductive Rights ] [Public Health ]
Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. Requires the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to submit a report to the Legislature. Establishes a Reproductive Health Care Working Group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lynn Decoite Received Notice Of Senate Conferees (sen. Com. No. 722). on 04/19/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Collective Bargaining. [HB-1641] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ]
Allows the exclusive representative to negotiate benefits of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. Allows disputes relating to benefits of, and amounts of contributions to, the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to be resolved by arbitration.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scot Matayoshi The Committee(s) On Lgo Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 01/30/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund Base Composite Monthly Contribution. [HB-1639] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Budget and Spending ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Insurance ] [Pensions ]
Increases the employer base composite monthly contribution effective 1/1/2025 by 5.2 per cent of the 2024 employer base. Provides that effective 1/1/2026, the employer base composite monthly contribution will be based on the change in medicare part B premiums from 2024 to 2025 and at a two-year lag thereafter. (SD1)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scot Matayoshi Received Notice Of Senate Conferees (sen. Com. No. 677). on 04/15/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Government. [SB-578] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Retirement ] [Law Enforcement ] [Pensions ]
Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position identified by the Department of the Attorney General as a labor shortage or difficulttofill position, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Director of Human Resources of the appropriate state jurisdiction or the human resources management chief executive of each county to include in their annual reports to the Legislature, details on the (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Dru Kanuha Report Adopted; Referred To The Committee(s) On Fin With None Voting Aye With Reservations; None Voting No (0) And Representative(s) Martinez, Nakashima, Quinlan Excused (3). on 03/22/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [HB-1015] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Insurance ] [Pensions ]
Enables the board of trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to establish appropriate salaries for the administrator and chief investment officer of the trust fund.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund Spousal Medicare Part B Premium Reimbursement. [SB-1314] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Insurance ] [Retirement ]
Amends section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exclude medicare reimbursement by the State and counties for the spouses of retired employees hired after 6/30/2023. (HD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi Act 040, 06/01/2023 (gov. Msg. No. 1140). on 06/01/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [HB-1015] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Insurance ] [Pensions ]
Enables the board of trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to establish appropriate salaries for the administrator and chief investment officer of the trust fund.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki Referred To Lgo, Fin, Referral Sheet 3 on 01/30/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [SB-1313] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Insurance ] [Pensions ]
Enables the board of trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to establish appropriate salaries for the Administrator and Chief Investment Officer of the Trust Fund. (CD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi Act 038, 06/01/2023 (gov. Msg. No. 1138). on 06/01/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To Other Post-employment Benefits. [HB-2240] [Budget and Spending ] [Finance ] [Pensions ] [Retirement ]
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to pay or prepay the State's other post-employment benefits liability under certain conditions. Requires that the outstanding balance of general obligation bonds issued to pay or prepay the other post-employment benefits liability to be considered in the calculation of public employers' annual required contribution to the other post-employment benefits trust fund. (CD1)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki Received Notice Of Passage On Final Reading In House (hse. Com. No. 824). on 05/05/2022

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund Investments. [HB-2104] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Investments ] [Insurance ]
Exempts the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from disclosing under chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, certain types of alternative investment fund information. Effective 12/25/2040. (HD1)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki The Committee(s) On Fin Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 02/23/2022

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [SB-2708] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Insurance ] [Human Services ] [Pensions ]
Amends the definition of "employee-beneficiary" to include the surviving unmarried adult child of a deceased retired member if the child is incapable of self-support due to a mental or physical incapacity that existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Taniguchi Pass First Reading on 03/10/2022

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [SB-1087] [Healthcare ] [Budget and Spending ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Funding ] [Public Health ]
Suspends the requirement for public employers to make annual required contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund through fiscal year 2024-2025. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi Carried Over To 2022 Regular Session. on 12/10/2021

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To The Hawaii Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund. [HB-933] [Healthcare ] [Budget and Spending ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Funding ]
Suspends the requirement for public employers to make annual required contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund through fiscal year 2024-2025.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki Carried Over To 2022 Regular Session. on 12/10/2021

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