CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2142

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 19, 1991

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1991

  Yeas 44   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2142 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

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                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                                  HOUSE BILL 2142

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Spanel and Winsley; by request of Department of Retirement Systems.

Read first time February 28, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.Providing a schedule for notification to public employees of accumulated service credit.

     AN ACT Relating to notification to public employees of accumulated service credit by the department of retirement systems; and amending RCW 41.50.065.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW  41.50.065 and 1990 c 8 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) The department shall annually notify each member of each retirement system listed in RCW 41.50.030 of his or her:

     (a) Service credit accumulated in the preceding calendar year; and

     (b) Total service credit accumulated.

     (2) The department shall begin notifying members under this section ((no later than October 1, 1993. The department shall initially concentrate on auditing members who are within five years of being eligible for service retirement)) according to the following schedule:

(a) All members of the teachers' retirement system shall begin receiving annual notification of accumulated service credit and service credit earned within the preceding school year or one school year, as appropriate, no later than January 1, 1991;

(b) All members, other than members of the teachers' retirement system, shall begin receiving annual notification of service credit accumulated within the preceding calendar year or school year, as appropriate, no later than June 30, 1992;

(c) All members within five years of being eligible for service retirement shall begin receiving annual notification of total service credit accumulated no later than October 1, 1993;

(d) Members, other than members of the teachers' retirement system, who are not within five years of being eligible for service retirement shall begin receiving annual notification of total service credit accumulated according to the following schedule:

(i) For members of the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system, Washington state patrol retirement system, judicial retirement system, and judges' retirement system, no later than August 30, 1993;

(ii) For employees of the state of Washington who are members of the public employees' retirement system, no later than August 30, 1994;

(iii) For employees of political subdivisions of the state of Washington, no later than January 31, 1995;

(iv) For employees of institutions of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016, no later than June 30, 1995; and

(v) For school district employees who are members of the public employees' retirement system, no later than April 30, 1996.

     (3) The department shall adopt rules implementing this section.