SENATE BILL REPORT

                                   EHB 2260

          AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS, FEBRUARY 20, 1992

Brief Description:  Making technical corrections to chapter 35, Laws of 1991.

SPONSORS: Representatives Spanel, McLean, Hine, Wineberry, D. Sommers and Wynne; by request of Joint Committee on Pension Policy

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

      Signed by Senators McDonald, Chairman; Craswell, Vice Chairman; Bailey, Bauer, Bluechel, Cantu, Gaspard, M. Kreidler, Metcalf, Murray, Newhouse, Rinehart, Saling, L. Smith, Talmadge, West, Williams, and Wojahn.

Staff:  Denise Graham (786‑7715)

Hearing Dates: February 19, 1992; February 20, 1992

BACKGROUND:

In 1991, the Legislature adopted Substitute House Bill 1270, which reorganized and recodified the chapters of the Revised Code of Washington dealing with the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), and the Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters' Retirement System (LEOFF).  The bill reorganized sections of Chapters 41.40, 41.32, and 41.26 RCW so that sections pertaining to Plan I and Plan II of the retirement systems would be easier to reference.  The bill also decodified or repealed obsolete statutes, updated references, and made other technical changes.

The office of the Code Reviser has identified a number of technical changes that would further clarify the codification of the chapters and several internal references that should be corrected.

SUMMARY:

The recodification of statutes pertaining to public retirement systems authorized in Chapter 35, Laws of 1991 (Substitute House Bill 1270) is ratified and the Code Reviser is authorized to correct all statutory references to sections that have been recodified.

Sections of the code are clarified to indicate which provisions apply to Plan I and Plan II of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System, and the Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters' Retirement System.  Certain redundant sections are repealed, and several internal references are corrected.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  available

TESTIMONY FOR:  None

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  No one