Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 24 - HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
Sec2 4.00 - ENROLLMENT PROCEDURES
Section 24-4.09 - Continuation of Coverage
Current through February, 2024
Subject to applicable federal and state law, coverage under the benefit plans offered or sponsored by the Fund shall continue:
(a) Provided the employee-beneficiary meets the eligibility provisions of Rule 3.01 and pays the employee-beneficiary's premium contribution as provided by statute, the employer's administrative rules, or an applicable bargaining unit agreement;
(b) While the employee-beneficiary participates in an employee strike authorized by chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, provided that nothing in this rule shall limit the right or ability of the Fund to collect premium contributions from any public employer or employee-beneficiaries or the remedies available to the Fund to collect such premium contributions.
(c) When an employee terminates employment and is rehired by the same public employer within the same pay period or the next consecutive pay period, the employee shall be considered as having transferred employment, such as when the employee terminates employment with the state and is rehired with the state, or when the employee terminates employment with a county and is rehired by the same county. The employee shall be treated as if continuously enrolled in the Fund benefit plans in which the employee was enrolled at the time of termination and shall be required to pay the full cost of coverage to the extent that such is not paid by the employee's public employer. When an employee terminates employment and is rehired by a different public employer within the same pay period or the next consecutive pay period, such as when the employee terminates employment with the state and is hired by a county or terminates one county and is rehired by a different county, the employee shall be allowed to change between plans, including adding or dropping dependents and changing tiers. Notwithstanding the definitions of "employer" and "public employer" set forth and used in these Administrative Rules, for purposes of this section only, the different public employers are: