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                       ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2985

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Basich, Jones, Hargrove, Sheldon, Riley and Paris)

Read first time 02/11/92.  Allowing certain law enforcement officers and fire fighters pension credit for past service.

     AN ACT Relating to establishing pension credit for law enforcement officers and fire fighters who qualified under a prior pension system; and adding new sections to chapter 41.26 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 41.26 RCW under the subchapter heading "PLAN I" to read as follows:

     If a member of plan I served as a law enforcement officer or fire fighter under a prior pension system and that service is not creditable to plan I because the member withdrew his or her contributions plus accrued interest from the prior pension system, the member's prior service as a law enforcement officer shall be credited to plan I if the member pays to the retirement system by June 30, 1993, an amount equal to that which the member withdrew from the prior pension system together with interest as determined by the director.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 41.26 RCW under the subchapter heading "PLAN I" to read as follows:

     If a plan I member's prior service as a law enforcement officer or fire fighter under a prior pension system is not creditable because, although employed in a position covered by a prior pension act, the member had not yet become a member of the pension system governed by the act, the member's prior service as a law enforcement officer or fire fighter shall be creditable under plan I, if the member pays to the plan, on or before June 30, 1993, an amount equal to the employee's and the employer's contributions that would have been required under the prior act when the member's service was rendered if the member had been a member of the prior pension system during that period, together with interest as determined by the director.