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                             ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2813

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Representatives Bowman, Prentice, Riley, Braddock, Cantwell, Van Luven and Brumsickle

Read first time 01/28/92.  Referred to Committee on Health Care.Allowing the transfer of the state law enforcement officers and fire fighters retirement system to the state health care authority.

     AN ACT Relating to members of the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system; and amending RCW 41.04.205.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 41.04.205 and 1990 c 222 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 41.04.180, the employees, with their dependents, of any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state shall be eligible to participate in any insurance or self-insurance program administered under chapter 41.05 RCW if the legislative authority of any such county, municipality, or other political subdivisions of this state determines a transfer to an insurance or self-insurance program administered under chapter 41.05 RCW should be made((:  PROVIDED, That this section shall have no application to members of the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system under chapter 41.26 RCW:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That)).  In the event of a special district employee transfer pursuant to this section, members of the governing authority shall be eligible to be included in such transfer if such members are authorized by law as of June 25, 1976 to participate in the insurance program being transferred from and subject to payment by such members of all costs of insurance for members.

     (2) When the legislative authority of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision determines to so transfer, the state health care authority shall:

     (a) Establish the conditions under which the transfer may be made, which shall include the requirements that:

     (i) All the eligible employees of the political subdivision transfer as a unit, and

     (ii) The political subdivision involved obligate itself to make employer contributions in an amount at least equal to those provided by the state as employer; and

     (b) Hold public hearings on the application for transfer; and

     (c) Have the sole right to reject the application.

     Approval of the application by the state health care authority shall effect a transfer of the employees involved to the insurance, self-insurance, or health care program applied for.

(3) Any application of this section to members of the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system under chapter 41.26 RCW is subject to chapter 41.56 RCW.