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2008 Fiscal Notes

The State Actuary's Office is responsible for providing a fiscal note on each pension bill introduced in the legislature and all amendments which are offered.

All bill numbers are linked to the Bill Information system on the Legislature's public website. OFM-approved fiscal notes may be accessed through the legislative site or directly from the OFM website.

 

As of March 24, 2008

House Bill

Senate Bill

Brief Title

1067 5062

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.

2603

Divesting state funds invested in companies doing business in Iran.

2887

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

2962 6573

Providing additional revenues for public safety.

2982

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.

3006 6652

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.

3007 6646

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

3008 6645

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.

3019 6654

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.

3020 6650

Providing benefits for the survivors of certain firefighters..

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3021 6657

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

3022 6651

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.

3021 6657

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

3023 6653

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

3024 6656

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.

3025 6647

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

3026 6664

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

3027 6648

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

3028 6649

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

3049 6635

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.

3070 6687

Addressing postretirement employment.

3089

Regarding occupational diseases of public employee fire investigators.

3182

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

3211 6455

Controlling the Washington state patrol retirement system.

3257

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.

3258

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.

3331

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

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