CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1721

                   Chapter 159, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

      JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM‑-REFUND OF CONTRIBUTIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 18, 1991

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 11, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 1

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 10, 1991 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

           BOOTH GARDNER           

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 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1721 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                  May 10, 1991 - 2:59 p.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1721

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives May and Locke).

Read first time March 11, 1991.  Refunding contributions to the judicial retirement system.

     AN ACT Relating to refunding contributions to the judicial retirement system; adding a new section to chapter 2.10 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 2.12 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 2.10 RCW to read as follows:

     If a judge who was a member of this system left the system before July 1, 1988, and neither the judge nor the judge's surviving spouse:  (1) Was eligible at that time to receive a benefit under this chapter; or (2) has received an amount under a sundry claims appropriation from the state legislature intended as a refund of the judge's contributions paid under RCW 2.10.090(1); then the judge or the judge's surviving spouse may apply to the department for and receive a refund of such contributions.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 2.12 RCW to read as follows:

     If a judge who was a member of this system left the system before July 1, 1988, and neither the judge nor the judge's surviving spouse:  (1) Was eligible at that time to receive a benefit under this chapter; or (2) has received an amount under a sundry claims appropriation from the state legislature intended as a refund of the judge's contributions paid under RCW 2.12.060; then the judge or the judge's surviving spouse may apply to the department for and receive a refund of such contributions.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.      If by June 30, 1991, the omnibus operating budget appropriations act for the 1991-93 biennium does not provide specific funding for this act, referencing this act by bill number, this act is null and void.

     Passed the House March 18, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 11, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 10, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1991.