HB 2312 Summary

• Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 88-93.5 to clarify procedures for Hawaii Domestic Relations Orders affecting Employees' Retirement System benefits.

• Allows spouses or former spouses to obtain benefit information from the system upon receipt of either a certified divorce complaint or certified divorce decree (previously only complaint was specified).

• Establishes that the system's review notification for proposed domestic relations orders is advisory only and does not constitute a binding determination of qualification.

• Adds two new subsections clarifying that payments to alternate payees count as benefits received by retirants for earnings limitation purposes and establishing priority of multiple orders based on the date certified copies are received by the system.

• Takes effect January 1, 2050.