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6045.E AMH ED AMH-10

ESB 6045 - H COMM AMD

By Committee on Education

ADOPTED AS AMENDED 4/10/95

Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"Sec. 1. RCW 41.32.570 and 1994 c 69 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Any retired teacher or retired administrator who enters service in any public educational institution in Washington state shall cease to receive pension payments while engaged in such service: PROVIDED, That service may be rendered up to seventy‑five days per school year without reduction of pension.

(2) In addition to the seventy-five days of service permitted under subsection (1) of this section, a retired teacher or retired administrator may also serve only as a substitute teacher for up to an additional fifteen days per school year without reduction of pension if:

(a) A school district, which is not a member of a multidistrict substitute cooperative, determines that it has exhausted or can reasonably anticipate that it will exhaust its list of qualified and available substitutes and the school board of the district adopts a resolution to make its substitute teachers who are retired teachers or retired administrators eligible for the additional fifteen days of extended service once the list of qualified and available substitutes has been exhausted. The resolution by the school district shall state that the services of retired teachers and retired administrators are necessary to address the shortage of qualified and available substitutes. The resolution shall be valid only for the school year in which it is adopted. The district shall forward a copy of the resolution with a list of retired teachers and retired administrators who have been employed as substitute teachers to the department and may notify the retired teachers and retired administrators included on the list of their right to take advantage of the provisions of this subsection; or

(b) A multidistrict substitute cooperative determines that the school districts have exhausted or can reasonably anticipate that they will exhaust their list of qualified and available substitutes and each of the school boards adopts a resolution to make their substitute teachers or retired administrators who are retired teachers eligible for the extended service once the list of qualified and available substitutes has been exhausted. The resolutions by each of the school districts shall state that the services of retired teachers and retired administrators are necessary to address the shortage of qualified and available substitutes. The resolutions shall be valid only for the school year in which they are adopted. The cooperative shall forward a copy of the resolutions with a list of retired teachers and retired administrators who have been employed as substitute teachers to the department and may notify the retired teachers and retired administrators included on the list of their right to take advantage of the provisions of this subsection.

(3) In addition to the seventy-five days of service permitted under subsection (1) of this section, a retired administrator or retired teacher may also serve as a substitute administrator up to an additional fifteen days per school year without reduction of pension if a school district board of directors adopts a resolution declaring that the services of a retired administrator or retired teacher are necessary because it cannot find a replacement administrator to fill a vacancy. The resolution shall be valid only for the school year in which it is adopted. The district shall forward a copy of the resolution with the name of the retired administrator or retired teacher who has been employed as a substitute administrator to the department. However, a retired administrator or retired teacher may not serve more than a total of fifteen additional days per school year pursuant to subsections (2) and (3) of this section.

(4) Subsection (1) of this section shall apply to all persons governed by the provisions of plan I, regardless of the date of their retirement, but shall apply only to benefits payable after June 11, 1986.

((~~(4)~~)) (5) Subsection (2) of this section shall apply to all persons governed by the provisions of plan I, regardless of the date of their retirement, but shall only apply to benefits payable after September 1, 1994.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately."

ESB 6045 - H COMM AMD

By Committee on Education

On page 1, line 1 of the title, after "administrators;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "amending RCW 41.32.570; and declaring an emergency."