CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1990

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 2, 1996   Yeas 90   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 29, 1996   Yeas 49   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1990 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1990

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Robertson, Chappell and Delvin)

Read first time 02/06/96. 

Providing minimum retirement benefits.

    AN ACT Relating to minimum retirement benefits; amending RCW 43.43.277; and creating a new section.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.43.277 and 1987 c 173 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The benefits provided under subsection (2) of this section shall be available only to surviving spouses whose allowances commenced before January 1, 1970, and who are not receiving and are not eligible for federal old age, survivors, or disability benefits.

    (2) Effective July 1, 1987, the minimum retirement benefit provided pursuant to RCW 43.43.275(1) to surviving spouses who meet the qualifications in subsection (1) of this section shall be twenty-three dollars per month per year of service.  However, the minimum benefit for the surviving spouse of a member who died in service who meets the qualifications in subsection (1) of this section shall be calculated using twenty years of service or the member's actual years of service, whichever is greater.

(3) Effective July 1, 1996, the minimum benefit under RCW 43.43.260 and 43.43.270(1) for the member or RCW 43.43.275(1) for the surviving spouse shall not be less than five hundred dollars per month if the member has completed at least twenty-five years of service in this system.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The joint committee on pension policy shall study the benefits provided to surviving spouses of retirees of the Washington state patrol retirement system and shall report to the fiscal committees of the legislature by January 1997.

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