CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2813
Chapter
199, Laws of 1992
52nd
Legislature
1992
Regular Session
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' AND FIRE FIGHTERS'
RETIREMENT SYSTEM‑ -ENROLLMENT
IN HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY BENEFIT
PLANS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/11/92
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Passed by the House February 15,
1992
Yeas 93 Nays 0
 JOE KING
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 6,
1992
Yeas 49 Nays 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of
the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify
that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2813 as passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
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 JOEL PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
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 ALAN THOMPSON
Chief
Clerk
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Approved April 2, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 2, 1992 -
11:37 a.m.
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BOOTH GARDNER
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State of
Washington
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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL 2813
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Passed
Legislature - 1992 Regular Session
State of Washington 52nd
Legislature 1992 Regular Session
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.
Passed the
House February 15, 1992.
Passed the
Senate March 6, 1992.
Approved by the Governor April 2, 1992.
Filed in Office of Secretary
of State April 2, 1992.