BILL REQ. #: S-1571.3
| State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2011 Regular Session |
Read first time 02/22/11. Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to offering health benefit subsidies for certain retired public employees; and adding a new section to chapter 41.05 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 41.05 RCW
to read as follows:
(1) From September 1, 2011, through August 31, 2014, the health
care authority shall provide an optional subsidy of two hundred fifty
dollars per month for health benefit premiums to any member of plan 1
of the teachers' retirement system who:
(a) Is ineligible for medicare;
(b) Applies for retirement under RCW 41.32.480 between June 1,
2011, and August 31, 2011; and
(c) Receives the first installment of a retirement allowance as
provided under RCW 41.32.480 before October 31, 2011.
(2) Members who opt to receive the subsidy provided in this section
are ineligible for the postretirement employment provisions of RCW
41.32.570 (2) or (3) until August 31, 2014. For the purposes of this
section, employment with an employer also includes any personal service
contract, service by an employer as a temporary or project employee, or
any other similar compensated relationship with any employer included
under the provisions of RCW 41.32.800(1).