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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 4660

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senators Halsan and Newhouse

Read first time 1/20/86 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to exempt pension money; and amending RCW 6.16.030.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, page 88, Laws of 1890 and RCW 6.16.030 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Any money received by any citizen of the state of Washington as a pension from the government of the United States, whether the same be in the actual possession of such person or be deposited or loaned by him, shall be exempt from execution, attachment or seizure by or under any legal process whatever.

(2) The right of a person to a pension, annuity, or retirement allowance or disability allowance, or death benefits, or any optional benefit, or any other right accrued or accruing to any citizen of the state of Washington under any employee benefit plan that is subject to the provisions of the federal employee retirement income security act of 1974, as amended, 29 U.S.C. secs. 1001 through 1461, or in sec. 401 of the federal internal revenue code of 1954, as amended, or both, or any fund created by such a plan, shall be exempt from execution, attachment, or seizure by or under any legal process whatever:  PROVIDED, That benefits under any such plan shall be payable to a spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a participant in such plan to the extent expressly provided for in a qualified domestic relations order (as such term is defined in section 206(d) of the federal employee retirement income security act of 1974, as amended, 29 U.S.C. sec. 1056(d) or in section 401(a)(13) of the internal revenue code of 1954, as amended).