CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5159

Chapter 72, Laws of 2012

62nd Legislature
2012 Regular Session



STATE PATROL RETIREMENT SYSTEM--SERVICE CREDIT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/07/12

Passed by the Senate February 10, 2012
  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 2, 2012
  YEAS 97   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5159 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved March 23, 2012, 11:45 a.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 23, 2012







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5159
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Passed Legislature - 2012 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2012 Regular Session

By Senators Schoesler, Conway, Fain, Holmquist Newbry, Carrell, Murray, Becker, Haugen, Hobbs, Pridemore, Rockefeller, Roach, McAuliffe, and Kilmer; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy

Read first time 01/17/11.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.



     AN ACT Relating to transferring service credit and contributions into the Washington state patrol retirement system by members who served as commercial vehicle enforcement officers and communications officers and then became commissioned troopers in the Washington state patrol; and adding a new section to chapter 41.40 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 41.40 RCW under the subchapter heading "plan 2" to read as follows:
     (1) Active members of the Washington state patrol retirement system who have previously established service credit in the public employees' retirement system plan 2 while employed in the state patrol as either (a) a commercial vehicle enforcement officer who then became a commissioned officer on or before July 16, 2000, or (b) a communications officer who then became a commissioned officer, have the following options:
     (i) Remain a member of the public employees' retirement system; or
     (ii) Transfer service credit earned under the retirement system as a communications officer or commercial vehicle enforcement officer to the Washington state patrol retirement system by making an irrevocable choice filed in writing with the department of retirement systems within one year of the department's announcement of the ability to make such a transfer.
     (2)(a) Any commissioned officer choosing to transfer under this section shall have transferred from the retirement system to the Washington state patrol retirement system:
     (i) All the employee's applicable accumulated contributions plus interest, and an equal amount of employer contributions attributed to that employee; and
     (ii) All applicable months of service as a communications officer or commercial vehicle enforcement officer credited to the employee under this chapter as though that service was rendered as a member of the Washington state patrol retirement system.
     (b) For the applicable period of service, the employee shall pay:
     (i) The difference between the contributions the employee paid to the retirement system and the contributions that would have been paid by the employee had the employee been a member of the Washington state patrol retirement system, plus interest as determined by the director. This payment shall be made no later than December 31, 2019, or the date of retirement, whichever comes first;
     (ii) The difference between the employer contributions paid to the public employees' retirement system, and the employer contributions that would have been payable to the Washington state patrol retirement system; and
     (iii) An amount sufficient to ensure that the funding status of the Washington state patrol retirement system will not change due to this transfer.
     (c) If the payment required by this subsection is not paid in full by the deadline, the transferred service credit shall not be used to determine eligibility for benefits nor to calculate benefits under the Washington state patrol retirement system. In such a case, the employee's accumulated contributions plus interest transferred under this subsection, and any payments made under this subsection, shall be refunded to the employee. The employer shall be entitled to a credit for the employer contributions transferred under this subsection.
     (d) An individual who transfers service credit and contributions under this subsection is permanently excluded from the public employees' retirement system for all service as a communications officer or commercial vehicle enforcement officer.


         Passed by the Senate February 10, 2012.
         Passed by the House March 2, 2012.
         Approved by the Governor March 23, 2012.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 23, 2012.