CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5432

 

 

                    Chapter 83, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

CHARITABLE DEDUCTIONS FROM RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 5, 1999

  YEAS 45   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 9, 1999

  YEAS 93   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5432 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved April 22, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.   

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 22, 1999 - 3:45 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5432

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senators Fraser, Winsley, Fairley, Hale, Long, Heavey, Franklin, Rasmussen, Prentice, Costa, Jacobsen, Bauer and Kohl‑Welles

 

Read first time 01/22/1999.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Authorizing charitable deductions from retirement allowances.  


    AN ACT Relating to authorizing deductions from retirement allowances for charitable purposes; and reenacting and amending RCW 41.40.052.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 41.40.052 and 1991 c 365 s 22 and 1991 c 35 s 92 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or retirement allowance, any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, the various funds created by this chapter, and all moneys and investments and income thereof, are hereby exempt from any state, county, municipal, or other local tax, and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or other process of law whatsoever, and shall be unassignable.

    (2)(a) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit a beneficiary of a retirement allowance from authorizing deductions therefrom for payment of premiums due on any group insurance policy or plan issued for the benefit of a group comprised of public employees of the state of Washington or its political subdivisions and which has been approved for deduction in accordance with rules that may be adopted by the state health care authority and/or the department, and this section shall not be deemed to prohibit a beneficiary of a retirement allowance from authorizing deductions therefrom for payment of dues and other membership fees to any retirement association or organization the membership of which is composed of retired public employees, if a total of three hundred or more of such retired employees have authorized such deduction for payment to the same retirement association or organization.

    (b) This section does not prohibit a beneficiary of a retirement allowance from authorizing deductions from that allowance for charitable purposes on the same terms as employees and public officers under RCW 41.04.035 and 41.04.036.

    (3) Subsection (1) of this section shall not prohibit the department from complying with (a) a wage assignment order for child support issued pursuant to chapter 26.18 RCW, (b) an order to withhold and deliver issued pursuant to chapter 74.20A RCW, (c) a notice of payroll deduction issued pursuant to RCW 26.23.060, (d) a mandatory benefits assignment order issued by the department, (e) a court order directing the department of retirement systems to pay benefits directly to an obligee under a dissolution order as defined in RCW 41.50.500(3) which fully complies with RCW 41.50.670 and 41.50.700, or (f) any administrative or court order expressly authorized by federal law.


    Passed the Senate March 5, 1999.

    Passed the House April 9, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 22, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1999.