CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

HOUSE BILL 1255

 

 

Chapter 266, Laws of 2001

 

 

57th Legislature

2001 Regular Session

 

 

EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICTS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/22/01

 

Passed by the House March 9, 2001

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

 

 

FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 10, 2001

  Yeas 47   Nays 1

 

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE

 

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co‑Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1255 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

 

 

 

CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

Chief Clerk

 

Approved May 11, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

 

 

FILED

 

May 11, 2001 ‑ 9:58 a.m.

 

 

 

 

Secretary of State

State of Washington

 


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                          HOUSE BILL 1255

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Passed Legislature ‑ 2001 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Cox, Fromhold, Haigh, Schoesler and Hunt

 

Read first time 01/22/2001.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Including educational service districts in school district provisions.    


    AN ACT Relating to educational service districts; amending RCW 28A.400.240; and reenacting and amending RCW 28A.400.350.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28A.400.240 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 205 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    In addition to any other powers and duties, any school district or educational service district may contract with any classified or certificated employee to defer a portion of that employee's income, which deferred portion shall in no event exceed the appropriate internal revenue service exclusion allowance for such plans, and shall subsequently with the consent of the employee, deposit or invest in a credit union, savings and loan association, bank, mutual savings bank, or purchase life insurance, shares of an investment company, or a fixed and/or variable annuity contract, for the purpose of funding a deferred compensation program for the employee, from any life underwriter or registered representative duly licensed by this state who represents an insurance company or an investment company licensed to contract business in this state.  In no event shall the total investments or payments, and the employee's nondeferred income for any year exceed the total annual salary, or compensation under the existing salary schedule or classification plan applicable to such employee in such year.  Any income deferred under such a plan shall continue to be included as regular compensation, for the purpose of computing the retirement and pension benefits earned by any employee, but any sum so deducted shall not be included in the computation of any taxes withheld on behalf of any such employee.

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 28A.400.350 and 1995 1st sp.s. c 6 s 18 and 1995 c 126 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    (1) The board of directors of any of the state's school districts or educational service districts may make available liability, life, health, health care, accident, disability and salary protection or insurance or any one of, or a combination of the enumerated types of insurance, or any other type of insurance or protection, for the members of the boards of directors, the students, and employees of the school district or educational service district, and their dependents.  Such coverage may be provided by contracts with private carriers, with the state health care authority after July 1, 1990, pursuant to the approval of the authority administrator, or through self-insurance or self-funding pursuant to chapter 48.62 RCW, or in any other manner authorized by law.

    (2) Whenever funds are available for these purposes the board of directors of the school district or educational service district may contribute all or a part of the cost of such protection or insurance for the employees of their respective school districts or educational service districts and their dependents.  The premiums on such liability insurance shall be borne by the school district or educational service district.

    After October 1, 1990, school districts may not contribute to any employee protection or insurance other than liability insurance unless the district's employee benefit plan conforms to RCW 28A.400.275 and 28A.400.280.

    (3) For school board members, educational service district board members, and students, the premiums due on such protection or insurance shall be borne by the assenting school board member, educational service district board member, or student.  The school district or educational service district may contribute all or part of the costs, including the premiums, of life, health, health care, accident or disability insurance which shall be offered to all students participating in interschool activities on the behalf of or as representative of their school ((or)),  school district, or educational service district.  The school district board of directors and the educational service district board may require any student participating in extracurricular interschool activities to, as a condition of participation, document evidence of insurance or purchase insurance that will provide adequate coverage, as determined by the school district board of directors or the educational service district board, for medical expenses incurred as a result of injury sustained while participating in the extracurricular activity.  In establishing such a requirement, the district shall adopt regulations for waiving or reducing the premiums of such coverage as may be offered through the school district or educational service district to students participating in extracurricular activities, for those students whose families, by reason of their low income, would have difficulty paying the entire amount of such insurance premiums. The district board shall adopt regulations for waiving or reducing the insurance coverage requirements for low-income students in order to assure such students are not prohibited from participating in extracurricular interschool activities.

    (4) All contracts for insurance or protection written to take advantage of the provisions of this section shall provide that the beneficiaries of such contracts may utilize on an equal participation basis the services of those practitioners licensed pursuant to chapters 18.22, 18.25, 18.53, 18.57, and 18.71 RCW.


    Passed the House March 9, 2001.

    Passed the Senate April 10, 2001.

Approved by the Governor May 11, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 11, 2001.