As of March 24, 2008

House Bill

Senate Bill

Brief Title

Authorizing certain members of the teachers' retirement system plan 1 to join the public employees' retirement system plan 1.

6571

Authorizing the purchase of an increased benefit multiplier for past judicial service for judges in the public employees' retirement system and the teachers' retirement system.

2134

Authorizing port district fire fighter membership in the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system plan 2.

Divesting state funds invested in companies doing business in Iran.

Authorizing the purchase of an increased benefit multiplier for past judicial service for judges in the public employees' retirement system.

Providing additional revenues for public safety.

Authorizing certain members of the teachers' retirement system plan 1 to join the public employees' retirement system plan 1.

3005

6655

Transferring public employees' retirement system plan 2 members to the school employees' retirement system plan 2.

Extending the survivor annuity option for preretirement death in plan 1 of the public employees' retirement system to members who die after leaving active service.

Addressing the survivor benefits of employees who die while honorably serving in the national guard or military reserves during a period of war.

Providing interruptive military service credit for members of plans 2 and 3 who provide proof to the director that their interruptive military service was during a period of war defined in RCW 41.04.005.

Addressing service credit for members working a partial year in plans 2 and 3 of the teachers' retirement system and the school employees' retirement system.

Providing benefits for the survivors of certain firefighters..

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Including salary bonuses for individuals certified by the national board for professional teaching standards as earnable compensation.

Providing for vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.

Including salary bonuses for individuals certified by the national board for professional teaching standards as earnable compensation.

Allowing department of fish and wildlife enforcement officers to transfer service credit.

Purchasing service credit in plan 2 and plan 3 of the teachers' retirement system for public education experience performed as a teacher in a public school in another state or with the federal government.

Authorizing the higher education coordinating board to offer higher education annuities and retirement income plans.

Indexing the one hundred fifty thousand dollar death benefit for public employees.

Participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.

Regulating health care coverage for retired or disabled school employees or state employees.

Defining basic salary for the purpose of employer contributions to an account formed under section 457 of the United States internal revenue code for the benefit of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system
plan 2.

Addressing postretirement employment.

Regarding occupational diseases of public employee fire investigators.

Authorizing applications for past part-time service credit for members of the school employees' retirement system.

Controlling the Washington state patrol retirement system.

Providing additional choice between plans 2 and 3 for members of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.

Providing an annual distribution to retired and terminated vested members of the public employees' retirement system plan 3, the school employees' retirement system plan 3, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.

Identifying methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus as a presumptive occupational disease affecting firefighters.