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ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 5740
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C 078 L 87
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By Senator Vognild
Read first time 2/9/87 and referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to employer contributions to insurance and health care plans for ferry system employees; amending 47.64.270; creating a new section; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the provisions of RCW 47.64.270 have been subject to misinterpretation. The objective of this act is to clarify the intent of RCW 47.64.270 as originally enacted.
Sec. 2. Section 18, chapter 15, Laws of 1983 and RCW 47.64.270 are each amended to read as follows:
Absent a
collective bargaining agreement to the contrary, the department of
transportation shall provide contributions to insurance and health care plans
for ferry system employees and dependents, as determined by the state
employees' insurance board, under chapter 41.05 RCW. The ferry system
management and employee organizations may collectively bargain for other
insurance and health care plans, and employer contributions may exceed that of
other state agencies as provided in RCW 41.05.050, subject to RCW 47.64.180.
((However, after July 1, 1984, any amount by which the employer contribution
for ferry system employees' and dependents' insurance and health care plans
exceeds that provided for other state agencies shall reduce the funds available
for compensation purposes, pursuant to RCW 47.64.180.)) To the extent
that ferry employees by bargaining unit have absorbed the required offset of
wage increases by the amount that the employer's contribution for employees' and
dependents' insurance and health care plans exceeds that of other state general
government employees in the 1985-87 fiscal biennium, employees shall not be
required to absorb a further offset except to the extent the differential
between employer contributions for those employees and all other state general
government employees increases during any subsequent fiscal biennium. If such
differential increases in the 1987-89 fiscal biennium or the 1985-87 offset by
bargaining unit is insufficient to meet the required deduction, the amount
available for compensation shall be reduced by bargaining unit by the amount of
such increase or the 1985-87 shortage in the required offset. Compensation
shall include all wages and employee benefits.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1987.