CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6141

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 14, 1994   YEAS 48   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 2, 1994   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6141 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the             House of Representatives

Secretary

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

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                                             State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6141

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators Talmadge, Moyer, Gaspard, Sellar, Wojahn and Winsley

Read first time 01/13/94.  Referred to Committee on Health & Human Services.

Changing the start up date of the new composition for the public employees' benefits board.

    AN ACT Relating to composition of the public employees' benefits board; amending RCW 41.05.055; and declaring an emergency.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 41.05.055 and 1993 c 492 s 217 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The public employees' benefits board is created within the authority.  The function of the board is to design and approve insurance benefit plans for state employees and school district employees.

    (2) ((Effective January 1, 1995,)) The board shall be composed of nine members appointed by the governor as follows:

    (a) Two representatives of state employees, one of whom shall represent an employee union certified as exclusive representative of at least one bargaining unit of classified employees, and one of whom is retired, is covered by a program under the jurisdiction of the board, and represents an organized group of retired public employees;

    (b) Two representatives of school district employees, one of whom shall represent an association of school employees and one of whom is retired, and represents an organized group of retired school employees;

    (c) Four members with experience in health benefit management and cost containment; and

    (d) The administrator.

    ((Prior to January 1, 1995, the composition of the public employees' benefits board shall reflect its composition on January 1, 1993.))

    (3) The governor shall appoint the initial members of the board to staggered terms not to exceed four years.  Members appointed thereafter shall serve two-year terms.  Members of the board shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.250 and shall be reimbursed for their travel expenses while on official business in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060.  The board shall prescribe rules for the conduct of its business.  The administrator shall serve as chair of the board.  Meetings of the board shall be at the call of the chair.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  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.

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