(a) In addition to the exemption specified in § 393-16, an employer shall be relieved of the employer’s duty under § 393-11 with respect to any employee who has notified the employer, in the form specified by the director, that the employee is:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-17

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
  • 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. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
  • Prepaid health care plan: means any agreement by which any prepaid health care plan contractor undertakes in consideration of a stipulated premium:

    (1) Either to furnish health care, including hospitalization, surgery, medical or nursing care, drugs or other restorative appliances, subject to, if at all, only a nominal per service charge; or

    (2) To defray or reimburse, in whole or in part, the expenses of health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3

(1) Protected by health insurance or any prepaid health care plan established under any law of the United States;
(2) Covered as a dependent under a prepaid health care plan, entitling the employee to the health benefits required by this chapter;
(3) A recipient of public assistance or covered by a prepaid health care plan established under the laws of the State governing medical assistance.
(b) Employers receiving notice of a claim of exemption under this section shall notify the director of such claim in the form prescribed by the director.

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