SCR 8418 - DIGEST

     Resolves that the Joint Committee on Pension Policy review and provide recommendations, and possible legislation, for the 2002 legislative session regarding the following issues:  (1) How to provide exspouses of LEOFF 1 members and retirees, who were married to the LEOFF 1 member for twenty or more years during the member's period of LEOFF 1 service, the ability to obtain a portion of the LEOFF 1 retirement plan allowance through the duration of the exspouse's life; and

     (2) Whether to provide a person who has rendered service as a law enforcement officer or a fire fighter for twenty-five or more years, beginning prior to October 1977, who was made a member of the PERS 1 retirement plan instead of the LEOFF 1 retirement plan due to a failure to meet the LEOFF 1 retirement plan minimum medical standards, an option to transfer from the PERS 1 retirement plan to the LEOFF 1 retirement plan; and

     (3) Whether retirement benefits for part-time school nurses who are members of the TRS 1 retirement plan should be calculated in the same manner as are the retirement benefits for part-time school teachers.