BILL REQ. #:  H-1066.1 

Read first time 01/28/2005.   Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

     AN ACT Relating to raising the mandatory retirement age for members of the Washington state patrol retirement system; and amending RCW 43.43.250.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 43.43.250 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 52 s 26 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Any member who has attained the age of sixty-one years shall be retired on the first day of the calendar month next succeeding that in which said member shall have attained the age of sixty: PROVIDED, That the requirement to retire at age sixty-one shall not apply to a member serving as chief of the Washington state patrol.
     (2) Any member who has completed twenty-five years of credited service or has attained the age of fifty-five may apply to retire as provided in RCW 43.43.260, by completing and submitting an application form to the department, setting forth at what time the member desires to be retired.