H-0254.1/91 _______________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 1214
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Anderson, Spanel, Fraser, R. Johnson and Riley.
Read first time January 23, 1991. Referred to Committee on State Government\Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to state employees; and amending RCW 41.04.340.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 41.04.340 and 1990 c 162 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
As used in this section the term "eligible employee" means any employee of the state, other than teaching and research faculty at the state and regional universities and The Evergreen State College, entitled to accumulate sick leave and for whom accurate sick leave records have been maintained. No employee may receive compensation under this section for any portion of sick leave accumulated at a rate in excess of one day per month. The state and regional universities and The Evergreen State College shall maintain complete and accurate sick leave records for all teaching and research faculty.
An attendance incentive program is established for all eligible employees. In January of the year following any year in which a minimum of sixty days of sick leave is accrued, and each January thereafter, any eligible employee may receive remuneration for unused sick leave accumulated in the previous year at a rate equal to one day's monetary compensation of the employee for each four full days of accrued sick leave in excess of sixty days. Sick leave for which compensation has been received shall be deducted from accrued sick leave at the rate of four days for every one day's monetary compensation.
((At
the time of separation from state service due to retirement or death, an
eligible employee or the employee's estate shall receive remuneration at a rate
equal to one day's current monetary compensation of the employee for each four
full days of accrued sick leave)) A state employee, upon leaving state
service, may elect to receive payment for unused sick leave (based upon the
employee's current salary) amounting to one hundred percent of time accrued, or
may request that the payment be placed into an account that can be used for
continuing the employee's medical insurance premium or pay the cost of medical
care for the employee and the employee's covered dependents. The account
terminates when either the money is depleted, or the employee elects to drop
the coverage, or on the death of all covered persons. State employees should
also be offered the alternative of receiving twenty-five percent of the accrued
sick leave in cash and then depositing the remaining seventy-five percent into
the paper account for medical use as outlined above: PROVIDED, That ((community
college districts may delay until July 1, 1981, payment due any eligible
employee or employee's estate: PROVIDED FURTHER, That)) there shall be
added to any such delayed payment interest at the rate of eight percent per
year.
Moneys received under this section shall not be included for the purpose of computing a retirement allowance under any public retirement system in this state.
This section shall be administered, and rules shall be promulgated to carry out its purposes, by the state personnel board and the higher education personnel board for persons subject to chapters 41.06 and 28B.16 RCW, respectively, and by their respective personnel authorities for other eligible employees: PROVIDED, That determination of classes of eligible employees shall be subject to approval by the office of financial management.
Should the legislature revoke any benefits granted under this section, no affected employee shall be entitled thereafter to receive such benefits as a matter of contractual right.