HB2204

Report Title:

Employee Benefits; State

Description:

Removes exemption for the State from the requirements of the prepaid health care law.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2204
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO EMPLOYEE BENEFITS.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 393-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "employer" to read as follows:

"(3) "Employer" means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, a debtor in possession or receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who has one or more regular employees in the employer's employment. "Employer" does not include:

[(A) The State, any of its political subdivisions, or any instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions;

(B)] (A) The United States government or any instrumentality of the United States;

[(C)] (B) Any other state or political subdivision thereof or instrumentality of such state or political subdivision; or

[(D)] (C) Any foreign government or instrumentality wholly owned by a foreign government, if (i) the service performed in its employ is of a character similar to that performed in foreign countries by employees of the United States government or of an instrumentality thereof, and (ii) the United States Secretary of State has certified or certifies to the United States Secretary of the Treasury that the foreign government, with respect to whose instrumentality exemption is claimed, grants an equivalent exemption with respect to similar service performed in the foreign country by employees of the United States government and of instrumentalities thereof."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

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