REPORT TITLE:
TDI Qualifications


DESCRIPTION: 
Bases the qualifications for benefit eligibility on the 52 weeks
immediately before the first day of disability instead of 4
calendar quarters.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:


 1      SECTION 1.  Section 392-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "[[]�392-25[]]  Eligibility for benefits.  An individual is
 
 4 eligible to receive temporary disability benefits if the
 
 5 individual has been in employment for at least fourteen weeks
 
 6 during each of which the individual has received remuneration in
 
 7 any form for twenty or more hours and earned wages of at least
 
 8 $400, during the [four completed calendar quarters] fifty-two
 
 9 weeks immediately preceding the first day of disability."
 
10      SECTION 2.  Section 392-43, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
11 amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
 
12      "(b)  Weekly wages for the purposes of this section shall
 
13 not include:
 
14      (1)  [wages] Wages earned by an employee in employment
 
15           during any payroll period unless, during the [four
 
16           completed calendar quarters] fifty-two weeks
 
17           immediately preceding such payroll period, the employee
 
18           has earned wages of at least $400 and has been in
 
19           employment for at least fourteen weeks during each of
 

 
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 1           which the employee has received remuneration in any
 
 2           form for twenty or more hours; and
 
 3      (2)  [remuneration] Remuneration in excess of one fifty-
 
 4           second of the average annual wage in the State as
 
 5           determined for the preceding year pursuant to section
 
 6           383-61(b) multiplied by the factor 1.21, which amount
 
 7           the director shall cause to be published annually prior
 
 8           to the first day of January following the
 
 9           determination."
 
10      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
11 New statutory material is underscored.
 
12      SECTION 4.  This Act, upon its approval, shall apply to all
 
13 disabilities occurring after December 31, 1999.
 
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15                           INTRODUCED BY:_________________________