Revised Code of Washington
2023 Archive

Chapter 41.32 RCW
TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
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"PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PLAN 1, PLAN 2, AND PLAN 3"
41.32.005Provisions applicable to "plan 1," "plan 2," and "plan 3."
41.32.010Definitions.
41.32.012Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
41.32.013Substitute teachers—Application for service credit—Procedures.
41.32.020Name of system.
41.32.025Department's power to determine eligibility.
41.32.032Membership in system—Service credit of educational staff associates.
41.32.033Membership in system—Charter school employers and employees.
41.32.035Employer contribution rates—Computation and payment.
41.32.042Validity of deductions—Interest.
41.32.044Retired teacher may reenter system—Benefit limitations.
41.32.052Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exceptions—Nonassignability—Deductions authorized.
41.32.053Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection.
41.32.054Disability retirement—Criminal conduct.
41.32.055Falsification—Penalty.
41.32.062Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
41.32.063Benefit calculation—Limitation.
41.32.064Establishing, restoring service credit.
41.32.0641Disabled in the line of duty—Continuation of service credit—Conditions.
41.32.065Election to use out-of-state service credit to calculate time at which the member may retire.
41.32.066Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
41.32.067Purchase of additional benefits—Conditions.
"PLAN 1"
41.32.215Provisions applicable to plan 1.
41.32.240Membership in system.
41.32.260Credit for military service or as state legislator.
41.32.263State legislators and state officials eligible for retirement benefits.
41.32.267Service credit for paid leave of absence—Application to elected officials of labor organizations.
41.32.270Teaching service, how credited.
41.32.300Limitation on credit for out-of-state service.
41.32.310Time limit for claiming service credit—Payments.
41.32.330Credit for professional preparation subsequent to becoming teacher.
41.32.340Creditable service, what to consist of.
41.32.345"Earnable compensation" defined for certain part-time employees—Adoption of rules.
41.32.350Purchase of additional annuity—Member contribution rate.
41.32.380Source of pension reserve—Contributions.
41.32.390Contributions for prior service credits.
41.32.470Eligibility for retirement allowance.
41.32.480Qualifications for retirement.
41.32.483Annual increase amount—Legislature's rights reserved—No additional increases after June 30, 2011.
41.32.485Minimum retirement allowance—Cost-of-living adjustment—Post-retirement adjustment—Computation.
41.32.4851Minimum retirement allowance—Annual adjustment—Persons who become beneficiaries after June 30, 1995.
41.32.4872Permanent increase for specified beneficiaries age seventy or over.
41.32.489Retirement allowance—Annual increases restricted after July 1, 2010—Eligibility.
41.32.4931Additional special pension for former members not receiving social security.
41.32.4945Limitation as to earnable compensation of member as member of the legislature.
41.32.497Retirement allowance for members entering system before April 25, 1973—Election.
41.32.498Retirement allowance for members entering system after April 25, 1973, or in lieu of allowance under RCW 41.32.497.
41.32.4986Members with thirty years of service—Irrevocable election.
41.32.4991Permanent retirement allowance adjustment.
41.32.4992Monthly benefit increase.
41.32.500Termination of membership.
41.32.510Payment on withdrawal—Reentry.
41.32.520Payment on death before retirement or within sixty days following application for disability retirement—Military service.
41.32.522Death benefits.
41.32.523Death benefits—Members not qualified for benefits under RCW 41.32.522 and retired former members.
41.32.530Options available—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
41.32.540Disability allowance—Temporary.
41.32.550Options and allowances on report that disability will be permanent—Reexamination.
41.32.555Persons with annual half-time contracts—Eligibility for benefits under RCW 41.32.550.
41.32.570Postretirement employment—Reduction or suspension of pension payments.
41.32.581End of participation in judicial retirement account plan—Newly elected or appointed judges.
41.32.584Additional benefit for justices or judges—One-time irrevocable election.
41.32.587Justices or judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.32.498.
"PLAN 2"
41.32.755Provisions applicable to plan 2.
41.32.760Computation of the retirement allowance.
41.32.762Lump sum retirement allowance—Reentry—Conditions for reinstatement of service.
41.32.765Retirement for service.
41.32.768Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
41.32.770Post-retirement cost-of-living.
41.32.780Teachers required to be members.
41.32.785Options for payment of retirement allowances—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
41.32.790Earned disability allowance—Eligibility—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.32.795Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.32.800Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reinstatement.
41.32.802Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reestablishment of membership.
41.32.805Death benefits.
41.32.810Service credit for paid leave of absence, officers of labor organizations, unpaid leave of absence, military service.
41.32.812Service credit for half-time employment from October 1, 1977, through December 31, 1986.
41.32.813One-time purchase of service credit—Conditions—Payment—Rules.
41.32.815Vested membership.
41.32.817Transfer to plan 3—Irrevocable option.
41.32.818Public employees' retirement system members who previously declined membership in the teachers' retirement system—Transfer to plan 3—Irrevocable option.
41.32.820Refund of contributions on termination.
41.32.825Reentry.
"PLAN 3"
41.32.831Provisions applicable to plan 3—Plan 3 elements.
41.32.835Choice of membership in plan 2 or plan 3.
41.32.836Higher education faculty—Option to transfer to plan 3—Limitation on supplemental benefits under RCW 28B.10.400.
41.32.837Right to waive benefit—Irrevocable choice.
41.32.840Computation of the retirement allowance.
41.32.8401Additional payment.
41.32.845Postretirement cost-of-living allowance.
41.32.851Options for payment of retirement allowances—Court-approved property settlement.
41.32.855Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.32.860Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reinstatement.
41.32.862Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reestablishment of membership.
41.32.865Service credit for paid leave of absence, officers of labor organizations, unpaid leave of absence, military service.
41.32.867Purchased service credit—Allocation.
41.32.868One-time purchase of service credit—Conditions—Payment—Rules.
41.32.870Lump sum payments—Reentry.
41.32.875Retirement eligibility.
41.32.878Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
41.32.880Earned disability allowance—Eligibility—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.32.892Restored, purchased service credit under plan 2—Transfer to plan 3.
41.32.895Death benefits.
NOTES:
Numerical designations—1998 c 341: See note following chapter 41.26 RCW digest.
Prior acts relating to teachers' retirement: (1) 1943 c 116; 1941 c 97; 1939 c 86, 40; 1937 c 221 (repealed by 1947 c 80 § 70).
(2) 1931 c 115; 1923 c 187; 1919 c 150; 1917 c 163 (repealed by 1937 c 221 § 14).
Employee salary or compensation—Limitations respecting: RCW 28A.400.220.
Portability of public retirement benefits: Chapter 41.54 RCW.
Teachers in state correctional facilities as members of teachers' retirement fund: RCW 72.01.200.