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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5698

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Pullen, Vognild, Madsen, DeJarnatt and Talmadge

Read first time 2/2/89 and referred to Committee on  Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to public employee payroll deductions for political committees; and amending RCW 41.04.020.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 70, Laws of 1947 as last amended by section 1, chapter 107, Laws of 1982 and RCW 41.04.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          Any employee or group of employees of the state of Washington or any of its political subdivisions, or of any institution supported, in whole or in part, by the state or any of its political subdivisions, may authorize ((the)) a deduction from ((his or their)) the employee's or employees' salaries or wages and payment to another, the amount or amounts of ((his or their)) the employee's or employees' subscription payments or contributions to any person, firm, or corporation administering, furnishing, or providing (1) medical, surgical, and hospital care or either of them, or (2) life insurance or accident and health disability insurance, or (3) any individual retirement account selected by the employee or the employee's spouse established under applicable state or federal law, or (4) any individual retirement account which is (a) offered through the committee for deferred compensation, (b) selected by the employee, and (c) established under applicable state or federal law:  PROVIDED, That such authorization by said employee or group of employees, shall be first approved by the head of the department, division office or institution of the state or any political subdivision thereof, employing such person or group of persons, and filed with the department of personnel; or in the case of political subdivisions of the state of Washington, with the auditor of such political subdivision or the person authorized by law to draw warrants against the funds of said political subdivision, or (5) any political committees duly registered with either the public disclosure commission, the federal election commission, or both: PROVIDED, That the deductions are voluntary and twenty-five or more officers or employees of a single agency or collective bargaining unit, or a total of one hundred or more officers or employees of several agencies or collective bargaining units subscribing to a common political committee, or twenty-five percent of all the officers or employees of any agency or collective bargaining unit, whichever shall be less, have authorized such a deduction for payment to the same political committee.