CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2933



59th Legislature
2006 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 11, 2006
  Yeas 96   Nays 0


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 7, 2006
  Yeas 48   Nays 0



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President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2933 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.



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Chief Clerk
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2933
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Passed Legislature - 2006 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2006 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives P. Sullivan, Curtis, Simpson, Conway, Hinkle, Kenney, Williams, Ericks, Sells, Rodne, McDonald, Kilmer and Green; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board)

READ FIRST TIME 02/03/06.   



     AN ACT Relating to death benefit payments for law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system, plan 2; and amending RCW 41.26.048.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 41.26.048 and 1996 c 226 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) A one hundred fifty thousand dollar death benefit shall be paid to the member's estate, or such person or persons, trust or organization as the member shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the department. If there be no such designated person or persons still living at the time of the member's death, such member's death benefit shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse as if in fact such spouse had been nominated by written designation, or if there be no such surviving spouse, then to such member's legal representatives.
     (2) The benefit under this section shall be paid only ((where)) when death occurs: (a) As a result of injuries sustained in the course of employment; or (b) to a member of plan 2 as a result of an occupational disease or infection that arises naturally and proximately out of employment covered under this chapter. The determination of eligibility for the benefit shall be made consistent with Title 51 RCW by the department of labor and industries. The department of labor and industries shall notify the department of retirement systems by order under RCW 51.52.050.

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