CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5359

                   Chapter 278, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

TEACHERS' RETIREMENT-‑TRANSFER OF CREDITS FROM OUT-OF-STATE PLANS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  5/20/91

Passed by the Senate March 18, 1991

  Yeas 49   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 18, 1991

  Yeas 92   Nays 5

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved May 20, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5359 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

           GORDON A. GOLOB             Secretary

                                     FILED         

                 May 20, 1991 - 10:54 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5359

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Craswell, Conner, Rinehart, Gaspard, Murray, Bailey and Bauer).

Read first time March 11, 1991.Allowing the transfer of certain retirement credits from out-of-state teacher retirement plans.

     AN ACT Relating to the transfer of credits from out-of-state teacher retirement plans; adding new sections to chapter 41.32 RCW; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 41.32 RCW to read as follows:

     A member may elect under this section to apply service credit earned in an out-of-state retirement system that covers teachers in public schools solely for the purpose of determining the time at which the member may retire.  The benefit shall be actuarially reduced to recognize the difference between the age a member would have first been able to retire based on service in the state of Washington and the member's retirement age.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 41.32 RCW to read as follows:

     A member may purchase additional benefits subject to the following:

     (1) The member shall pay all reasonable administrative and clerical costs; and

     (2) The member shall make an annuity fund contribution to be actuarially converted to a monthly benefit at the time of retirement.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.      This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.

     Passed the Senate March 18, 1991.

     Passed the House April 18, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 20, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 20, 1991.