| Passed by the Senate March 4, 2009 YEAS 42 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House March 30, 2009 YEAS 93 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5238 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. THOMAS HOEMANN ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved April 8, 2009, 3:40 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 9, 2009 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 61st Legislature | 2009 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 02/23/09.
AN ACT Relating to mailing information to certain members of the state retirement systems; and adding a new section to chapter 41.50 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 41.50 RCW
to read as follows:
(1) Any organization that exclusively provides representation or
services to retired members of the Washington state retirement systems
and has membership dues deducted through the department of retirement
systems has the right to request the department to assist in doing
blind mailings to retirees twice each year. The mailings must provide
information to members of the retirement systems eligible for
membership in the retiree organization regarding services offered by
the retiree organization. The mailings shall not be for the purpose of
supporting or opposing any political party, ballot measure, or
candidate. The retiree organization must provide all printed materials
to be mailed and envelopes to a mail processing center and pay all
costs for generating mailing labels, inserting materials into
envelopes, sealing, labeling, and delivering materials to be mailed to
a bulk mail center or post office. The organization must use its own
bulk mail permit and pay all postage costs.
(2) The department must provide requested retiree data for
addressing the envelopes to the mail center under a secure data share
agreement with the mail center under which neither the organizations
nor any other entity has direct access to any names or addresses. The
department has no obligation to approve or disapprove, or in any other
way take any responsibility for, the content of the mailings. Only
organizations that meet the requirements under subsection (1) of this
section and have legal authority to provide services to retirement
system retirees have the right to request assistance with blind
mailings.