HB 2896 - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/18/02)

     Provides that an employee who was a member of the public employees' retirement system employed as an emergency medical technician for a city, town, or county; is employed as an emergency medical technician for a fire department of a city, town, or county; and whose job was relocated from another department of a city, town, or county government to a fire department of that same city, town, or county; has the following options: (1) Remain a member of the public employees' retirement system; or

     (2) Leave any service credit earned as a member of the public employees' retirement system in the public employees' retirement system, and have all future service earned in the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system plan 2, becoming a dual member under the provisions of chapter 41.54 RCW; or

     (3) Make an election, filed in writing with the department of retirement systems, to transfer service credit previously earned as an emergency medical technician for a city, town, or county in the public employees' retirement system plan 2 to the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system plan 2 as defined in RCW 41.26.030.