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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3192

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Talmadge and Kreidler

Read first time 1/21/85 and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

AN ACT Relating to state employee retirement; and amending RCW 41.40.220.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 23, chapter 274, Laws of 1947 as last amended by section 9, chapter 151, Laws of 1972 ex. sess. and RCW 41.40.220 are each amended to read as follows:

          Upon retirement for disability, as provided in RCW 41.40.200, a member who has not attained age sixty shall receive the following benefits, subject to the provisions of RCW 41.40.310 and 41.40.320:

          (1) A disability retirement pension of two-thirds of his average final compensation to his attainment of age sixty, subject to the provisions of RCW 41.40.310((.  The disability retirement pension provided by the employer shall not exceed forty-two hundred dollars per annum)), and

          (2) Upon attainment of age sixty, the disabled member shall receive a service retirement allowance as provided in RCW 41.40.210.  Such disabled member shall be given membership service for the period of time prior to age sixty he was out of such service due to such disability.

          (3) During the period a disabled member is receiving a disability pension, as provided for in subdivision (1) of this section, his contributions to the employees' savings fund shall be suspended and his balance in the employees' savings fund, standing to his credit as of the date his disability pension is to begin, shall remain in the employees' savings fund:  PROVIDED, That if the disabled member should die before attaining age sixty, while a disability beneficiary, upon receipt by the retirement board of proper proof of death, his accumulated contributions standing to his credit in the employees' savings fund, shall be paid to such person or persons, having an insurable interest in his life, as he shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the retirement board:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if there be no such designated person or persons still living at the time of the member's death, his accumulated contributions standing to his credit in the employees' savings fund shall be paid to his surviving spouse as if in fact such spouse had been nominated by written designation as aforesaid, or if there be no such surviving spouse, then to his legal representative.