SB3080

Report Title:

Employer Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Board

 

Description:

Increases trustees from 10 to 12. Adds one trustee to those representing employees. Adds one trustee to represent employers, who is to be appointed by the county mayors on a rotational basis. Prohibits governor from reducing the term of the initial county-appointed trustee.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3080
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

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. Section 87A-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§87A-5[]] Composition of board. The board of trustees of the employer-union health benefits trust fund shall consist of [ten] twelve trustees, eleven of whom shall be appointed by the governor, and one of whom shall be appointed by the counties on a rotational basis as follows:

(1) [Five] Six trustees, one of whom shall represent retirees, to represent employee-beneficiaries. The trustees shall be appointed from a list of three nominees per trustee submitted by the exclusive employee representative organizations; and

(2) [Five] Six trustees, one of whom shall be selected by the counties, to represent public employers. The county trustee shall be selected by the mayor of a county on a rotational basis. The rotation for the selection of the county trustee shall be as follows: the city and county of Honolulu, the county of Hawaii, the county of Maui, and the county of Kauai.

Section 26-34 shall not apply to board member selection and terms."

SECTION 2. Section 87A-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§87A-6[]] Term of a trustee; vacancy. The term of office of each trustee shall be four years; provided that a trustee may be reappointed for one additional consecutive four-year term. Each term shall commence on January 1 and expire on December 31. The governor may reduce the terms of those initially appointed so as to provide, as far as practicable, for the expiration of an equal number of terms at intervals of one year[.]; provided, however, that the governor may not reduce the term of the county trustee.

A vacancy on the board shall be filled by appointment of the governor[;] or the mayor in the case of a vacancy in the county trustee position; provided that the criteria used for selecting the successor shall be the same criteria used for selecting the person's predecessor. The person appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the term of the person's predecessor.

If by the end of a trustee's term a trustee is not reappointed or the trustee's successor is not appointed, the trustee shall serve until the trustee's successor is appointed."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

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