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HOUSE
BILL 1048
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Passed
Legislature - 2001 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/12/2001. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
Increasing the number of hours that teachers' retirement
system plan retirees may work in an eligible position to eight hundred forty
without a reduction in their retirement benefits.
AN
ACT Relating to increasing the number of hours that teachers' retirement system
plan retirees may work in an eligible position to eight hundred forty without a
reduction in their retirement benefits; and amending RCW 41.32.570.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
41.32.570 and 1999 c 387 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a)
If a retiree enters employment with an employer sooner than one calendar month
after his or her accrual date, the retiree's monthly retirement allowance will
be reduced by five and one-half percent for every seven hours worked during
that month. This reduction will be applied each month until the retiree
remains absent from employment with an employer for one full calendar month.
(b)
The benefit reduction provided in (a) of this subsection will accrue for a
maximum of one hundred forty hours per month. Any monthly benefit reduction
over one hundred percent will be applied to the benefit the retiree is eligible
to receive in subsequent months.
(2)
Any ((retired teacher or retired administrator)) retiree who
enters service in any public educational institution in Washington state and
who has satisfied the break in employment requirement of subsection (1) of this
section shall cease to receive pension payments while engaged in such service:
PROVIDED, That service may be rendered up to ((five hundred twenty-five))
eight hundred forty hours per school year without reduction of pension.
(((3)
In addition to the five hundred twenty-five hours of service permitted under
subsection (2) of this section, a retired teacher or retired administrator may
also serve only as a substitute teacher for up to an additional three hundred
fifteen hours 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 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 who are retired teachers or
retired administrators 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.
(4)
In addition to the five hundred twenty-five hours of service permitted under
subsection (2) of this section, a retired administrator or retired teacher may
also serve as a substitute administrator up to an additional one hundred five
hours 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.
(5)
In addition to the five hundred twenty-five hours of service permitted under
subsection (2) of this section and the one hundred five hours permitted under
subsection (4) of this section, a retired principal may also serve as a
substitute principal up to an additional two hundred ten hours per school year
without a reduction of pension if a school district board of directors adopts a
resolution declaring that the services of a retired principal are necessary
because it cannot find a replacement principal 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
principal who has been employed as a substitute principal to the department.
(6)
Subsection (2) of this section shall apply to all persons governed by the
provisions of plan 1, regardless of the date of their retirement, but shall
apply only to benefits payable after June 11, 1986.
(7)
Subsection (3) of this section shall apply to all persons governed by the
provisions of plan 1, regardless of the date of their retirement, but shall
only apply to benefits payable after September 1, 1994.))
(3)
The department shall collect and provide the state actuary with information
relevant to the use of this section for the joint committee on pension policy.
(4)
The legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal this section in the
future and no member or beneficiary has a contractual right to receive eight
hundred forty hours per year of postretirement employment.
Passed the House March 13, 2001.
Passed the Senate April 10, 2001.
Approved by the Governor May
15, 2001.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State May 15, 2001.
