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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3446

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senator Patterson

Read first time 1/30/85 and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

AN ACT Relating to retirement from public service; and amending RCW 28B.10.400.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 28B.10.400, chapter 223, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 1, chapter 259, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and RCW 28B.10.400 are each amended to read as follows:

          The boards of regents of the state universities, the boards of trustees of the regional universities and of The Evergreen State College, and the state board for community college education are authorized and empowered:

          (1) To assist the faculties and such other employees as any such board may designate in the purchase of old age annuities or retirement income plans under such rules and regulations as any such board may prescribe.  County agricultural agents, home demonstration agents, 4-H club agents, and assistant county agricultural agents paid jointly by the Washington State University and the several counties shall be deemed to be full time employees of the Washington State University for the purposes hereof;

          (2) To provide, under such rules and regulations as any such board may prescribe for the faculty members or other employees under its supervision, for the retirement of any such faculty member or other employee on account of age or condition of health, retirement on account of age to be not earlier than the sixty-fifth birthday:  PROVIDED, That such faculty member or such other employee may elect to retire at the earliest age specified for retirement by federal social security law:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That any supplemental payment authorized by subsection (3) of this section and paid as a result of retirement earlier than age sixty-five shall be at an actuarially reduced rate;

          (3) To pay to any such retired person or to his designated beneficiary(s), each year after his retirement, a supplemental amount which, when added to the amount of such annuity or retirement income plan, or retirement income benefit pursuant to RCW 28B.10.415, received by him or his designated beneficiary(s) in such year, will not exceed fifty percent of the average annual salary paid to such retired person for his highest two consecutive years of full time service under an annuity or retirement income plan established pursuant to subsection (1) of this section at an institution of higher education:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if such retired person prior to his retirement elected a supplemental payment survivors option, any such supplemental payments to such retired person or his designated beneficiary(s) shall be at actuarially reduced rates:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That if a faculty member or other employee of an institution of higher education who is a participant in a retirement plan authorized by this section dies, or has died before retirement but after becoming eligible for retirement on account of age, the designated beneficiary(s) shall be entitled to receive the supplemental payment authorized by this subsection (3) of this section to which such designated beneficiary(s) would have been entitled had said deceased faculty member or other employee retired on the date of death after electing a supplemental payment survivors option:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That for the purpose of this subsection, the designated beneficiary(s) shall be (a) the surviving spouse of the retiree; or, (b) with the written consent of such spouse, if any, such other person or persons as shall have an insurable interest in the retiree's life and shall have been nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the retiree's institution of higher education.  For persons retiring after April 20, 1982, "average annual salary," as used in this section, includes the person's salary as may be supplemented up to the extent of the contractual salary by the federal government or by an international government agency of which the United States is a member.