WSR 16-19-005

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed September 7, 2016, 1:32 p.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Updating purchase service credit rules for teachers' retirement system (TRS) and school employees' retirement system (SERS).

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 41.50.050.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To allow TRS and SERS members who work as a substitute and then are hired permanently to purchase service credit if they worked more than five months of seventy hours as either a substitute or eligible employee.

Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Jilene Siegel, Rules Coordinator, Department of Retirement Systems, P.O. Box 48380, Olympia, WA 98504-8380, e-mail Rules@drs.wa.gov, phone (360) 664-7291.

September 7, 2016

Jilene A. Siegel

Rules Coordinator