CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 6303

 

 

                    Chapter 17, Laws of 1998

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

 

 

SERVICE CREDIT--RESTRICTIONS ON RESTORATION

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/98

Passed by the Senate February 11, 1998

  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House February 27, 1998

  YEAS 95   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 6303 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

           MIKE O'CONNELL

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved March 11, 1998 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 11, 1998 - 4:24 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 6303

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

 

By Senators Bauer, Long, Franklin, Winsley, Rossi, Roach and Fraser; by request of Joint Committee on Pension Policy

 

Read first time 01/15/98.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Restoring retirement service credit. 


    AN ACT Relating to restrictions on the restoration of service credit; adding a new section to chapter 41.26 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 41.32 RCW; adding new sections to chapter 41.40 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 43.43 RCW.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 41.26 RCW under the subchapter heading "provisions applicable to plan I and plan II" to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, persons who fail to:

    (1) Establish allowable membership service not previously credited;

    (2) Restore all or a part of that previously credited membership service represented by withdrawn contributions; or

    (3) Restore service credit represented by a lump sum payment in lieu of benefits, before the deadline established by statute, may do so under the conditions set forth in RCW 41.50.165.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 41.32 RCW under the subchapter heading "provisions applicable to plan I, plan II, and plan III" to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, persons who fail to:

    (1) Establish allowable membership service not previously credited;

    (2) Restore all or a part of that previously credited membership service represented by withdrawn contributions; or

    (3) Restore service credit represented by a lump sum payment in lieu of benefits, before the deadline established by statute, may do so under the conditions set forth in RCW 41.50.165.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 41.40 RCW under the subchapter heading "provisions applicable to plan I and plan II" to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, persons who fail to:

    (1) Establish allowable membership service not previously credited;

    (2) Restore all or a part of that previously credited membership service represented by withdrawn contributions; or

    (3) Restore service credit represented by a lump sum payment in lieu of benefits, before the deadline established by statute, may do so under the conditions set forth in RCW 41.50.165.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.  A new section is added to chapter 41.40 RCW under the subchapter heading "provisions applicable to plan I" to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, employees of Washington State University who first established membership in the public employees' retirement system plan I under RCW 41.40.500 through 41.40.507, as existing on July 28, 1991, and RCW 41.40.508, as existing on June 7, 1990, may purchase, as set forth under RCW 41.50.165, plan I service credit for the period of service at Washington State University prior to his or her contributory membership in the Washington State University retirement system.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 5.  A new section is added to chapter 43.43 RCW to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, persons who fail to:

    (1) Establish allowable membership service not previously credited;

    (2) Restore all or a part of that previously credited membership service represented by withdrawn contributions; or

    (3) Restore service credit represented by a lump sum payment in lieu of benefits, before the deadline established by statute, may do so under the conditions set forth in RCW 41.50.165.


    Passed the Senate February 11, 1998.

    Passed the House February 27, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 11, 1998.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 11, 1998.