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                                           ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL NO. 2763

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Locke and May

Read first time 1/19/90 and referred to Committee on Appropriations.

AN ACT Relating to refunding contributions to the judicial retirement system; and adding a new section to chapter 2.10 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 2.10 RCW to read as follows:

          If a judge who was a member of this system, or its predecessor, left the system before July 1, 1988, and neither the judge nor the judge's surviving spouse:  (1) Was eligible at that time to receive a benefit under this chapter; or (2) has received an amount under a sundry claims appropriation from the state legislature intended as a refund of the judge's contributions paid under RCW 2.10.090(1); then the judge or the judge's surviving spouse, upon application, shall receive from the department a refund of such contributions.