Hawaii · statute · Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 87A · 39 active provisions
As used in this chapter: "Board" means the board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund described in section 87A-5. "Carrier" means a voluntary association, corporation, partnership, or organization engaged in providing, paying for, arranging for, or reimbursing the cost of, health benefits…
[See explanatory note below.] The board of trustees of the employer-union health benefits trust fund shall consist of ten trustees appointed by the governor in accordance with the following procedure: (1) Five trustees, one of whom shall represent retirees, to represent employee-beneficiaries and to be selected as foll…
[See explanatory note below.] 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. A vacancy on the board shall be filled in the same manner as the trustee who vacated that position was nominated or appointed; provided that the…
The trustees shall elect from among the members a chair, a vice-chair, and a secretary-treasurer.
Each trustee shall serve without compensation, but the trustees may be reimbursed from the fund for any reasonable expenses incurred in carrying out the purposes of the fund.
The attorney general shall serve as legal adviser to the board and shall provide legal representation for the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund.
Meetings may be scheduled, and notice of meetings shall be provided as follows: (1) The chairperson may call a meeting of the board at any time by giving at least six calendar days' written notice of the time and place of the meeting to all trustees; and (2) A majority of the trustees may call a meeting of the board by…
(a) Six trustees, three of whom represent the public employer and three of whom represent employee-beneficiaries, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (b) Trustees representing the public employers shall collectively have one vote. Trustees representing the employee-beneficiaries shall collectivel…
The board shall keep records and minutes of all meetings of the board.
The board shall administer and carry out the purpose of the fund. Health and other benefit plans shall be provided at a cost affordable to both the public employers and the public employees.
(a) The board shall establish the health benefits plan or plans, which shall be exempt from the minimum group requirements of chapter 431. (b) The board may contract for health benefits plans or provide health benefits through a noninsured schedule of benefits.
A Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund health benefits plan shall permit each beneficiary to fill any covered prescription in accordance with chapter 431R.
The board may provide benefits under a group life insurance benefits program or group life insurance program to employees.
(a) The board may establish a long-term care benefits plan or plans for employee-beneficiaries; the spouses, parents, grandparents, in-law parents, and in-law grandparents of employee-beneficiaries; and qualified-beneficiaries. The plan or plans shall be at no cost to employers and shall comply with article 10H of chap…
(a) The board may offer medical, hospital, or surgical benefits plans to part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employees at no cost to the employers. The board may determine eligibility for part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employees by rules exempt from chapter 91 as provided in section 87A-26. (b) T…
(a) The board shall establish eligibility criteria to determine who can qualify as an employee-beneficiary, dependent-beneficiary, or qualified-beneficiary, consistent with the provisions of this chapter. (b) A retired member of the employees' retirement system; a county pension system; or a police, firefighters, and b…
(a) The board shall make information summarizing approved benefits plans available to each employee-beneficiary. The information shall, to the extent reasonably possible, be distributed to each employee-beneficiary at the same time and in the same manner. (b) The board shall establish conditions and procedures for bene…
The board shall establish a health benefits plan, which takes into account benefits available to an employee-beneficiary and spouse under medicare, subject to the following conditions: (1) There shall be no duplication of benefits payable under medicare. The plan under this section, which shall be secondary to medicare…
In addition to the power to administer the fund, the board may: (1) Collect, receive, deposit, and withdraw money on behalf of the fund; (2) Invest moneys in the same manner specified in section 88-119; (3) Hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, or dispose of any securities or other investments of the fund, as well as…
The board shall: (1) Authorize charges and payments from the fund only upon vouchers countersigned by the chairperson and any other person designated by the board; (2) Maintain accurate records and accounts of all financial transactions of the fund that shall be audited annually and summarized in an annual report to th…
(a) The board may adopt rules for the purposes of this chapter. Rules shall be adopted without regard to chapter 91. Rulemaking procedures shall be adopted by the board and shall minimally provide for: (1) Consultation with employers and affected employee organizations with regard to proposed rules; (2) Adoption of rul…
Beginning on July 1, 2017, the actuary retained by the board pursuant to section 87A-42 shall make an annual valuation of the assets and liabilities of the fund based on tables and other factors adopted by the board annually. The annual valuation shall include an update of assumptions specific to the fund that are not…
There is established outside the state treasury, a trust fund to be known as the "Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund". The fund shall consist of contributions, interest, income, dividends, refunds, rate credits, and other returns. It is hereby declared that any and all sums contributed or paid from any so…
(a) The fund shall be used to provide employee-beneficiaries and dependent-beneficiaries with health and other benefit plans, and to pay administrative and other expenses of the fund. All assets of the fund are and shall be dedicated to providing health and other benefits plans to the employee-beneficiaries and depende…
For the purposes of this part, "public employer" means a governmental entity whose employees', beneficiaries', and retirees' health benefits coverage is provided through the fund.