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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5567
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/19/93.
Allowing benefits for emergency medical service district volunteers.
AN ACT Relating to emergency medical service
district volunteer benefits; amending RCW 41.24.010; and adding new sections to
chapter 41.24 RCW.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 41.24.010 and 1989 c 91 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
As used in this chapter:
"Municipal corporation" or
"municipality" includes any city or town, fire protection district,
or any water, irrigation, or other district, authorized by law to afford emergency
medical services or protection to life and property within its boundaries
from fire.
"Fire department" means any regularly
organized fire department or emergency medical service district
consisting wholly of volunteer fire fighters, or any part-paid and
part-volunteer fire department duly organized and maintained by any
municipality: PROVIDED, That any such municipality wherein a part-paid fire
department is maintained may by appropriate legislation permit the full-paid
members of its department to come under the provisions of chapter 41.16 RCW.
"Fire fighter" includes any fire
fighter or emergency worker who is a member of any fire department of
any municipality but shall not include full time, paid fire fighters who are
members of the Washington law enforcement officers' and fire fighters'
retirement system, with respect to periods of service rendered in such
capacity.
"Emergency worker" means any
emergency medical service personnel, regulated by chapters 18.71 and 18.73 RCW,
who is a member of an emergency medical service district but shall not include
full-time, paid emergency medical service personnel who are members of the
Washington public employees' retirement system, with respect to periods of
service rendered in such capacity.
"Performance of duty" shall be
construed to mean and include any work in and about company quarters or any
fire station or any other place under the direction or general orders of the
chief or other officer having authority to order such member to perform such
work; responding to, working at, or returning from an alarm of fire; drill; or
any work performed of an emergency nature in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the fire department.
"State board" means the state board
for volunteer fire fighters created herein.
"Board of trustees" means a board
of trustees created under RCW 41.24.060 or, for matters affecting an emergency
worker, an emergency medical service district board of trustees created under
section 2 of this act.
"Appropriate legislation" means an
ordinance when an ordinance is the means of legislating by any municipality,
and resolution in all other cases.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. In
every county maintaining a regularly organized emergency medical service
district there is hereby created an emergency medical service district board of
trustees for the administration of this chapter. The emergency medical service
district board shall consist of three of the members of the county legislative
authority or their designees, the county auditor or the auditor's designee, the
head of the emergency medical service district, and one emergency worker from
the emergency medical service district to be elected by the emergency workers
of the emergency medical service district for a term of one year and annually
thereafter.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.
The chair of the board of county commissioners shall be chair of the emergency
medical service district board of trustees, and the county clerk shall be the
secretary-treasurer of the emergency medical service district board of
trustees. The secretary shall keep a public record of all proceedings, of all
receipts and disbursements made by the emergency medical service district board
of trustees and shall make an annual report of its expenses and disbursements
with a full list of the beneficiaries of said fund in the county, the record to
be placed on file in the county. Such forms as shall be necessary for the
proper administration of this fund and of making the reports required hereunder
shall be provided by the state board.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.
The state board shall set the amount consistent with the most recent valuation
of the volunteer fire fighters relief and pension fund to be paid for the
purposes of this chapter by emergency medical service districts for emergency
worker relief and pension fees and by emergency workers for emergency worker
pensions. The fees set under this section are subject to the other provisions
of this chapter.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.
Sections 2 through 4 of this act are each added to chapter 41.24 RCW.
