PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
RETIREMENT SYSTEMS
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Public safety employee's retirement system (PSERS).
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 41.37.015, 41.50.050(5).
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The department will adopt a new WAC chapter to implement chapter 41.37 RCW, Washington Public Safety Employees' Retirement System. The Washington Public Safety Employees' Retirement System (PSERS) is a separate retirement system for public employees whose jobs contain a high degree of physical risk to their own personal safety. Chapter 41.37 RCW takes effect July 1, 2006.
Process for Developing New Rule: The Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) will develop the draft rule(s) with the assistance of the Attorney General's Office. The public is invited and encouraged to participate, as described below.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication. DRS encourages your active participation in the rule-making process. After the rule(s) is drafted, DRS will file a copy with the Office of the Code Reviser with a notice of proposed rule making. The notice will include the time and date of a public rules hearing. DRS will send a copy of the notice and the proposed rule(s) to everyone currently on the mailing list and anyone else who requests a copy. To request a copy or for more information on how to participate, please contact Leslie Saeger, Rules and Contracts Coordinator, Department of Retirement Systems, P.O. Box 48380, Olympia, WA 98504-8380, voice (360) 664-7291, TTY (360) 586-5450, fax (360) 753-3166, e-mail leslies@drs.wa.gov.
May 18, 2005
Leslie Saeger
Rules Coordinator