SENATE BILL REPORT

                   SB 6387

              As Passed Senate, February 12, 1998

Title:  An act relating to authorizing deductions from retirement allowances for charitable purposes.

Brief Description:  Authorizing charitable deductions from retirement allowances.

Sponsors:  Senators Fraser, Swecker, Fairley, Rasmussen and Winsley.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Ways & Means:  1/21/98, 2/5/98 [DP].

Passed Senate, 2/12/98, 47-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators West, Chair; Deccio, Vice Chair; Strannigan, Vice Chair; Bauer, Brown, Fraser, Hochstatter, Kohl, Long, Loveland, McDonald, Rossi, Schow, B. Sheldon, Snyder, Spanel, Swecker, Thibaudeau, Winsley and Zarelli.

  Staff:  Debrah Kime (786-7454)

Background:  Currently, a Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) retiree or a beneficiary of a PERS retirement allowance cannot have charitable deductions automatically withdrawn from that retirement allowance on the same terms as employees and public officers.

Summary of Bill:  A PERS retiree or a beneficiary of a PERS retirement allowance is not prohibited from authorizing deductions from that allowance for charitable purposes. 

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Requested on January 19, 1998.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  Retirees would appreciate the opportunity to have charitable contributions automatically withdrawn from their monthly retirement allowances.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Joe Beck, Public Employees Retirement Council (pro).