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ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL 6045
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/28/95.
Referred to Committee on Education.
Allowing retired
administrators to serve as replacement administrators without a reduction of
pension benefits.
AN ACT
Relating to retired administrators; amending RCW 41.32.570; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
41.32.570 and 1994 c 69 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
Any retired teacher or retired administrator who enters service in any
public educational institution in Washington state shall cease to receive
pension payments while engaged in such service: PROVIDED, That service may be
rendered up to seventy‑five days per school year without reduction of
pension.
(2) In
addition to the seventy-five days of service permitted under subsection (1) of
this section, a retired teacher or retired administrator may also serve
only as a substitute teacher for up to an additional fifteen days per school
year without reduction of pension if:
(a) A
school district, which is not a member of a multidistrict substitute
cooperative, determines that it has exhausted or can reasonably anticipate that
it will exhaust its list of qualified and available substitutes and the school
board of the district adopts a resolution to make its substitute teachers who
are retired teachers or retired administrators eligible for the
additional fifteen days of extended service once the list of qualified and
available substitutes has been exhausted. The resolution by the school district
shall state that the services of retired teachers and retired administrators
are necessary to address the shortage of qualified and available substitutes.
The resolution shall be valid only for the school year in which it is adopted.
The district shall forward a copy of the resolution with a list of retired
teachers and retired administrators who have been employed as substitute
teachers to the department and may notify the retired teachers and retired
administrators included on the list of their right to take advantage of the
provisions of this subsection; or
(b) A
multidistrict substitute cooperative determines that the school districts have
exhausted or can reasonably anticipate that they will exhaust their list of
qualified and available substitutes and each of the school boards adopts a
resolution to make their substitute teachers or retired administrators
who are retired teachers eligible for the extended service once the list of
qualified and available substitutes has been exhausted. The resolutions by
each of the school districts shall state that the services of retired teachers and
retired administrators are necessary to address the shortage of qualified
and available substitutes. The resolutions shall be valid only for the school
year in which they are adopted. The cooperative shall forward a copy of the
resolutions with a list of retired teachers and retired administrators
who have been employed as substitute teachers to the department and may notify
the retired teachers and retired administrators included on the list of
their right to take advantage of the provisions of this subsection.
(3) In
addition to the seventy-five days of service permitted under subsection (1) of
this section, a retired administrator or retired teacher may also serve as a
substitute administrator up to an additional fifteen days per school year
without reduction of pension if a school district board of directors adopts a
resolution declaring that the services of a retired administrator or retired
teacher are necessary because it cannot find a replacement administrator to
fill a vacancy. The resolution shall be valid only for the school year in
which it is adopted. The district shall forward a copy of the resolution with
the name of the retired administrator or retired teacher who has been employed
as a substitute administrator to the department. However, a retired
administrator or retired teacher may not serve more than a total of fifteen
additional days per school year pursuant to subsections (2) and (3) of this
section.
(4)
Subsection (1) of this section shall apply to all persons governed by the
provisions of plan I, regardless of the date of their retirement, but shall
apply only to benefits payable after June 11, 1986.
(((4)))
(5) Subsection (2) of this section shall apply to all persons governed
by the provisions of plan I, regardless of the date of their retirement, but
shall only apply to benefits payable after September 1, 1994.
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.
