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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1182

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Brumsickle, Karahalios, Dorn, Chandler, Peery, G. Cole, Zellinsky, Chappell, Jacobsen, Basich, Carlson, Wood, Thomas, Brough, Cothern, Van Luven, Johanson, Shin, Jones, Morton, Ballard, Padden, Fuhrman, Sheahan, Talcott, Schoesler, Long, Eide, Flemming, Wang, Horn, Mielke, Tate, Springer, Cooke, Dyer, Leonard, Foreman, Vance, Pruitt and Finkbeiner

Read first time 01/20/93.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Allowing retired teachers to work in educational institutions for ninety days per school year without a reduction in benefits.

          AN ACT Relating to pension payments to retired teachers; amending RCW 41.32.570; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that there is a shortage of certificated substitute teachers in many regions of the state, and that this shortage will likely increase in the coming years.  The legislature further finds that one method of reducing this shortage of substitute teachers is to encourage retired teachers to serve as substitutes by increasing the number of days they can work without affecting their retirement payments.

        Sec. 2.  RCW 41.32.570 and 1989 c 273 s 29 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) Any retired teacher who enters service in any public educational institution in Washington state shall cease to receive pension payments while engaged in such service: PROVIDED, That service may be rendered up to ((seventy‑five)) ninety days per school year without reduction of pension.  Of this ninety days, fifteen days may be used only for substitute teaching and may not be used in conjunction with or as a continuation of a longer term substitute teaching or annual contract.

          (2) Subsection (1) of this section shall apply to all persons governed by the provisions of plan I, regardless of the date of their retirement, but shall apply only to benefits payable after June 11, 1986.

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